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| + | #REDIRECT [[Isaac Asimov#Laws of Robotics]] [[Category:redirect]] |
− | One of the real inventions in the field of [[stfantasy]]. The laws worked out by [[Isaac Asimov]] in his US [[Robots]] and Mechanical Men (aka Positronic Robots, and [[Susan Calvin]]) Series declare
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− | # a [[robot]] may not harm nor allow to be harmed any human; <br> | |
− | # a [[robot]] must obey all orders given it by authority unless they conflict with 1.; <br>
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− | # a [[robot]] must preserve its existence except when this would conflict with 1. or 2.
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− | Others have also developed the idea, if not in just this form then at least as a definite set of built-in laws of [[robotic]] behavior whose consequences are fictionally explored.
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− | from [[Fancyclopedia 2 Supplement]] ca. 1960:
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− | These were actually suggested by [[Campbell]], [[Asimov]] having merely suggested that they existed.
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− | According to [[Asimov]], he did not originate the Laws, but was given them by [[John W. Campbell]], who said: "Go and write stories based on this!". He did coin the term ''robotics'', though, in his May 1941 ''[[Astounding]]'' story, “Liar!” Although foreshadowed in this story, the “Three Laws” were first spelled out in “Runaround” (''Astounding'', March 1942).
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