“A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm.”
Jef Raskin book The Humane Interface
The Humane Interface (2001)
“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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