9 September 2024

Drafting the first laws to govern AI

In 1942, the renowned science fiction writer, Isaac Asimov, wrote a number of short stories in which he implied the existence of a set of rules which were to be followed by the robots which were a subject of many of his stories. These became the ‘Three Laws of Robotics’ introduced in his short story ‘Runaround’ and presented as being from a fictional “Handbook of Robotics, 56th edition, 2058 AD.