12: I, Robot, by Isaac Asimov.
One of the great Sci-Fi classics of all time. It has established the global idea that as robots come into existence as no longer fictional science, they will need laws in their programming to protect man from them, but for those who pay more attention, to protect man from using robots against other men, the three laws of robotics:
1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2) A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
With these three, simple directives, Isaac Asimov formulated the laws governing robots’ behavior. In I, Robot, Asimov chronicles the development of the robot from its primitive origins in the present to its ultimate perfection in the not-so-distant future—a future in which humanity itself may be rendered obsolete.
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