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The items in this collage were selected from the AI TOPICS Web site's "AI in the News" collection that can be found--complete with links to the item's source and related AI TOPICS pages--at www. Please note that: (1) an excerpt may not reflect the overall tenor of the item, nor contain all of the relevant information; and, (2) all items are offered "as is" and the fact that an item has been selected does not imply any endorsement whatsoever. 'We are studying the application of the RAHS concepts and tools to the social, and economic and financial domains,' Nathan wrote in an email interview." "To literally live with robots, that are highly likely to become more intelligent and physically closer to humans in the future, Koreans are devising the world's first robot ethics charter that will prevent robots from doing harm to people, and block humans from taking advantage of robots for unscrupulous purposes, according to the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy. Under the civil-government partnership, the Robot Ethics Charter is being drafted by 12 Korean professionals including a government official, robotics professors, psychology experts and medical doctors.... To science fiction fans, the move to produce a robot ethics charter might remind them of the'Three Laws of Robotics' presented by U.S. author Isaac Asimov in his book Runaround originally published in 1942....