These have been posted on the side of the blog for a week or so, but I would like to have that space for something new. I decided that these ought to be on my blog somewhere, however, so here they are.
1. A robot may not (knowingly) injure a human being or, through inaction, (knowingly) allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey any 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.
These, of course, are vital to all of Asimov's books that involve robots.
Interesting fact; Asimov was one of the first to publish a story involving a robot that did not have that robot turn on its creator (a la Frankenstein). This was (in-universe) due to the three laws that are a key part of each robot's positronic brain.
Hmm, Fire and Ice has one line that doesn't quite fit the available space at the side of the blog. Just consider "fire" to be part of the first line.
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