Three Laws of Robotics
<p>Jul 07, 2011 12:04 PM
 
introduced in 1942 in Runaround..
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<li>A robot may<b> not injure a human being </b>or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.</li>
<li>A robot must obey any orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.</li>
<li>A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.</li>
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<b>Do NOT INJURE</b>
<b>OBEY</b>
<b>PROTECT YOURSELF</b>
 
zeroth law:  a robot may not harm humanity or allow humanity to come to harm.
 
 
Asimov found unbearably tedious:</p>
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<p><i>... one of the stock plots of science fiction was ...<b> robots were created and destroyed by their creator. Knowledge has its dangers, yes, but is the response to be a retreat from knowledge? Or is knowledge to be used as itself a barrier to the dangers it brings</b>? With all this in mind I began, in 1940, to write robot stories of my own – but robot stories of a new variety. Never, never, was one of my robots to turn stupidly on his creator for no purpose but to demonstrate, for one more weary time, the crime and punishment of Faust</i>. — Isaac Asimov, 1964
 
 
FOURTH LAW: <b> A robot must declare that it is a robo</b>t
 
Fifth Law: <b> a robot must KNOW that it's a robot</b>.
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