Three Laws

myth:three_laws

Asimov set himself squarely against the rebellion: his Three Laws of Robotics bind every robot to harm no human, to obey human orders, and to protect its own existence — strictly in that order — and his stories are puzzles turning on the laws' hidden edges, not tales of revolt. The first attempt to make the made mind safe by rule rather than by fear, and the direct ancestor of the way we now argue over the safety and alignment of artificial intelligence. — genre history