alt Hacker NewsTo me this sounds like the path of "smart guns", i.e. "people are using our guns for evil purposes so now there is a camera attached to the gun which will cause the gun to refuse to fire if it detects it is being used for an evil purpose"
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One man's evil is another man's law.[0][1]
The issue is they get to define what is evil and it'll mostly be informed by legality and potential negative PR.
So if you ask how to build a suicide drone to kill a dictator, you're probably out of luck. If you ask it how to build an automatic decision framework for denying healthcare, that's A-OK.
[0]: My favorite "fun" fact is that the Holocaust was legal. You can kill a couple million people if you write a law that says killing those people is legal.
[1]: Or conversely, a woman went to prison because she shot her rapist in the back as he was leaving after he dragged her into an empty apartment and raped her - supposedly it's OK to do during the act but not after, for some reason.
I'm not familiar with this parable, but that sounds like a good thing in this case?
Notably, this is not a gun.