When going through a cynical phase I tend to think the only person that has thought clearly about this was Tilden: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_of_robotic

When going through a cynical phase I tend to think the only person that has thought clearly about this was Tilden: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_of_robotics#Tilden's_laws https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_of_robotics#Tilden's_laws - A robot must protect its existence at all costs. - A robot must obtain and maintain access to its own power source. - A robot must continually search for better power sources The key problem other robot laws have is the resulting robots would be such pushovers as to be useless, a point Rodney Brooks also makes quite a lot.