What do users think about my solution to the robot revolt problem?

Works about as well as anything, I suppose. Either that, or attack Phineas-and-Ferb style. Or be like Double Doofenshmirtz and hold a jar of coins somewhere.

I don't know those entertainment references.

Ah. I was referencing Phineas and Ferb, The Movie: Across The 2nd Dimension.

AI learning algorithms rely on doing the wrong thing, usually every wrong thing, in order to determine the right thing.

Environment has little to do with it.

I would accept that. Your criticism is a bit "small picture", but thanks.

OK, let me take this explanation of AI one step further.

When training an AI, the programmer usually uses a reward/penalty approach. The AI doesn't know which actions result in which result until they attempt the action. In the case of an AI driving a car, it takes driving into things in order for the AI to learn that driving into things results in a penalty. Basically, the AI doesn't know that something is bad until it does it, and there's no way to encode every good or bad thing into an AI algorithm because of the sheer number of things that the AI could do.

It's all theoretical anyway. The 3 laws of robotics was an Isaac Asimov construct written 75 years ago for use in various fiction about robots. They aren't in use anywhere except fiction.

I know Asimov is a sci-fi author. I hate to meme this trigger...

The current state of AI (the current public state, who knows what big tech has hidden away), is that of programs that are designed to learn specific tasks. Nobody has (publicly) achieved sentience yet. Artificial sentience is fiction, along with the 3 laws.

I appreciate the technical information.