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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
Asimov had a number of stories dealing with the edges of the three laws. One story allowed robots to harm humans because the robots were programmed with a very narrow definition of human.
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And in my favortite Donovan & Powell story, a robot let them get *killed*...
...because it was given a very loose version of the first law and because the "death" was strictly temporary. And even there, the robot was compelled to make the period of "death"...well...
interesting...
Not going to spoil it but if anybody ever gets to make a *real* I, Robot (probably as a TV miniseries) Donovan & Powell are going to steal the show.