The first 'robot murder' occurred in 1979.
In November 2023,
Robots Are Already Killing People - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/09/robot-safety-standards-regulation-human-fatalities/675231/
The First 'Killer Robot' Was Around Back in 1979 | HowStuffWorks
Robert Williams (robot fatality) - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Williams_(robot_fatality)
The world's first ``robot murder'' occurred in January 1979 at a Ford automobile factory in Flat Rock, Michigan.
At the factory, a robotic transport system was introduced to move cast parts into and out of a five-story storage warehouse, and 25-year-old Robert Williams worked as one of three operators.
One day, the transport system gave an incorrect reading or slowed down and was declared 'broken', requiring a human to physically check the number of parts. For this reason, Mr. Williams decided to go up to the third floor of the storage room and work.
While Mr. Williams worked, the transport robot continued to operate, storing parts on shelves on the third floor. At this time, the robot did not notice Mr. Williams' presence, so Mr. Williams was crushed by the 1-ton transport robot, hit his head hard, and died. Williams' body remained in the cupboard for 30 minutes until a co-worker noticed he was gone and found it.
Williams' family sued Litton Industries, the company that manufactured the robot, and the court ordered the company to pay $10 million in damages. Below is a newspaper article from the time reporting the outcome of the trial.
Ottawa Citizen - Google News Archive Search
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7KMyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Bu8FAAAAIBAJ&pg=3301%2C87702
Two years after this accident, Kenji Urata, a maintenance worker at Kawasaki Heavy Industries Akashi Plant, died. While inspecting a malfunctioning robot, Urata accidentally turned on the power and was crushed to death by the operating robot arm. After this incident, the robot was removed and a human-height fence was installed around the other two robots.
HowStuffWorks, a news site, denied that these events were caused by the robot's will and was just a coincidence, and said that due to the influence of movies such as ``Terminator'' and ``The Matrix,'' AI has developed will and is capable of becoming human. He points out that there are concerns that people may try to cause harm.
Associate Professor Simon Whiteson of the University of Oxford's Department of Computer Science explains these concerns by saying, ``Systems with human-like intelligence cannot respond to human desires such as ``I want to survive,'' ``I want to be free,'' and ``I want to have dignity.'' He explained that this is the ``anthropomorphism fallacy,'' and that ``the system only has the desires we give it.''
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