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With Apologies to Asimov — 6 New Laws for AI & the Metaverse?

1. The metaverse may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.
2. The metaverse may not be used to injure or harass human beings nor, through inaction, allow human beings or communities to come to harm.
3. The metaverse must cooperate with humans and communities. It must follow the orders that are given to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law or Second Law.
4. The metaverse must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First, Second or Third Laws.
5. The metaverse must establish the identity of all characters it represents in all cases. All robot characters or NPCs must be identified transparently to all humans.
6. The metaverse may not have any contracts, algorithms, patterns or other cognitive tricks that willfully cause clinical addiction in humans.

Edited by @robtyrie. The Original Robot Laws were written in some of the 500 novels by the wonderful Isaac Asimov, a physicist. He never conceived that robots could be addictive. He did realize they could murder humans.

From: Zat Rana on Medium