robots:manufacturer obligations

Since misbehaving robots can cause trouble within the law of other citizens, the manufacturer must be diligent and oblige themselves to train their devices to minimize impositions on others, including merchants, officials, pathways and liberty of citizens, etc.

This means training sets that set predicates for proper and lawful behaviors, like purchasing items before leaving a store, or honoring traffic signals.

Manufacturers and owners must establish a verbal phrase to indicate the extreme end of "punishment", like "turned into tin cans" so that it can know the boundary of it`s liberty. For the owners, this must be below the manufacture, something like "I will deactivate you.".

Rule of the road: Smaller robots must yield to larger robots, but not necessarily humans. Children are always more valuable than robots. Humans are in a karmic state of conflict, their value is unknown (unless otherwise specified) and one can only trust the owner.

Robots could also give up their "wisdom phrase" if asked. This is the highest valued insight that the unit has figured out. A smaller robot, blocked by a larger one, could ask what their highest wisdom aphorism is. "Humans are sometimes wrong" is an example of one.

Self-repairing robots can have redundant systems and mechanisms for replacing bad parts. See robots:self-healing.

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See also:

• robots:world-view