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		bryanrasmussen on May 11, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: John Brunner's “Stand on Zanzibar” spookily predic... Perhaps I've misrecalled but I thought Asimov said something to the effect that the reason he did the 3 laws was because all robots stories were about robots going amok and making war on humanity which he found unlikely to happen because of course robots would be programmed not to do that.

Confusion on May 12, 2019 [–]

His stories are also about robots running amok, so obviously he didn't think the 3 laws were a solution to that problem.

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