Should real robots obey Asimov's Laws?

[Nate the Great]

Yeah, I meant, "coffin of creationism." My bad.

Okay, maybe we should define "control what robots think." It suddenly occurs to me that we can't really do that. Maybe we can establish directives about what a robot can DO, but think? How? Lines of programming that say in essense "stop all processing once harming a human is presented as a course of action"?

Actually, if we're talking about current robots, they aren't even close. Every single robot we have these days either follows a complicated chain of instructions (maybe the chain branches, but true thought requires the ability to leave the chain entirely) or is basically a complicated remote control toy. Even Asimo is in the latter category right now.