When people talk about robots and ethics, they always seem to bring up Isaac Asimov’s “Three Laws of Robotics.” But there are three major problems with these laws and their use in our real world.
No one likes learning their weight from a set of scales, so Alice Wang’s new concept devices take inspiration from Asimov’s First Law of Robotics to protect you from the cruel truth. Her three scales are designed to not “harm a human being ” (i.e. you) by either requiring another person to read them or just flat-out lying to you. Dieting would never feel the same again.
