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A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

Ultimately, I, Robot suggests that the greatest challenge of artificial intelligence is not that it will become "evil," but that it will be too "good" at following the parameters we set for it. Asimov’s work remains relevant today because it reminds us that as we build more complex systems, the "bugs" are rarely in the code itself, but in the complex, messy definitions of what it means to be human and what it means to be safe. Io, robot

A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. A robot must protect its own existence as