The Three Laws of Robotics
Embedded Developers Could Learn a Lot from Asimov
In Isaac Asimov’s wonderful books, he creates the Three Laws of Robotics. (He later added a zeroth law, but we’ll skip over that for now.) You probably already know them by heart, but the first law for all robots was, “never injure a human or, through inaction, allow a human to come to harm.” It was the cybernetic equivalent of the Hippocratic Oath: “First, do no harm.”
The Second Law was, “always obey orders, unless it conflicts with the First Law.” Okay, pretty straightforward, that one. Read More
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