“A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.”

— Isaac Asimov , book Runaround

"Runaround" in Astounding Science Fiction (March 1942); later published in I, Robot (1950)
The Three Laws of Robotics (1942)
Variant: A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

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American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston Uni… 1920–1992

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