大众工厂机器人杀人是工业事故_时事

大众工厂机器人杀人是工业事故

The killing of a technician by an industrial robot at aVolkswagen plant in Germany sparked a social mediastorm this week and raised fears about human safetyin the coming era of robotics.

本周，大众汽车(Volkswagen)德国工厂一台工业机器人导致一名技师丧生的事件，在社交媒体上掀起了一场风暴。这件事还让不少人担心，在即将到来的机器人时代中，人类自身的安全会受到威胁。

But experts on artificial intelligence andautomation said the incident near Kassel should beunderstood as an extremely rare industrialaccident, rather than a warning about future threats. The accident, in which the robot crushedthe man against a metal plate, occurred during installation and involved a fast-moving first-generation robot designed to operate inside a cage, well away from human workers.

但人工智能和自动化专家表示，卡塞尔市(Kassel)附近发生的这起事件，应被理解为一起极为罕见的工业事故，而不是关于人类未来会面临哪些威胁的一次警告。这起事故是在技师装配机器人的过程中发生的，机器人把技师挤到了一块金属板上。涉事的是一台快速移动的第一代机器人，从设计上说，这种机器人是在笼子里工作的，远离人类员工。

“With present technology we cannot ‘blame’ the robot, said Blay Whitby, artificialintelligence expert at the University of Sussex. “Robots are not yet at a level where theirdecision-making allows us to treat them as blameworthy.