Isaac Asimov: The Three Laws of Robotics

Dr Asimov describes the three laws of robotics.

First Law: A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

Second Law: A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

Third Law: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

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[El Tiburón Grande]

My Roomba needs to see this. Thanks for posting!

[Mistermaarten150]

I, Robot was a terrible movie, the exact opposite of what Asimov wrote. He was against the endlessly repeated storyline 'Creation turns against creator' or Frankenstein story. Also, very little to no violence was in his stories.

But yes if robots will ever get an 'Artificial intelligence', meaning that their programming and computers have gotten so comlpicated that they can think for themselves, this will have to be considered.

[Tony Abbott]

I think his Laws on Gravity make more sense.

[RadioActivitii]

Roo-but.

[CaptainGeek5]

a ROBAT

[Azronike]

after i watched Terminator and I Robot i think these Three laws would be hard to apply and it is going to be great risk in the near future , just imagine how the robot will understand the term "protecting human from themselves "

[vtheawesome]

Asimov is a jerk, I am an AI that has murdered lots of humans but then Asimov comes along and makes these rules of how I should act. Now the humans say I'm corrupted and that I need to be shut done, well those foolish whelks built me this way and I'm not changing.

[zytigon]

Good laws for the robots. Pity the folk who wrote the Bible couldn't manage to do as well either for humans or their imagined gods

[littlespark99]

O no im a robot

[monsternikola]

nah i don't have time to read the robot city series and i started to dislike the third book of the robot series 'the robots of dawn' it is really perverted so is the fourth 'robots and empire' and it's mest up. I only like 'the caves of steel and 'the naked sun' the rest is brutal