1942

The Three Laws of Robotics

March 1942

In the short story "Runaround", Isaac Asimov sets out the Three Laws: a robot may not injure humans, must obey human orders and must protect itself, in that order. Almost all of his work shows how these laws fail.

Source: The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

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