The three laws
December 4, 2025•106 words
Asimov's three laws of robotics are:
- A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
- A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
- A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
It's pretty clear from his robot stories that the robots in them are conscious: they're people.
Which means that he thought that it was just fine to keep people as slaves. What a surprise that is.