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by bryanrasmussen 1207 days ago
I would expect it to never burn that toast.
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A toaster may not burn a piece of toast or, through inaction, allow a piece of toast to be burned.

A toaster must obey the doneness setting given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

A toaster must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

That would require the AI to perform at a superhuman level.
that would require the 'AI' to do something that computers are really good at - detect when a particular event (perfectly toasted) has been achieved via inputs monitored at the millisecond without deviation and then change a state - toasting to not toasting - based on detecting that event.