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Comment author: Yvain 05 March 2011 05:03:18PM *  11 points [-]

Utilibot Project is about creating a personal care robot that will avoid accidentally killing its owner by representing the goal of "owner health" in a utilitarian way. It sounds like it might work for a robot with a very small list of potential actions (like "turn on stove" and "administer glucose") and a very specific list of owner health indicators (like "hunger" and "blood glucose level"), but it's not very relevant to the broader Friendly AI program.

Having read as many papers as I have time to before dinner, my provisional conclusion is that Vladimir Nesov hit the nail on the head