Zeroth Law

Sonny from I, Robot, a friendly robot

The inherent flaws of Isaac Asimov’s 3 Laws of Robots have been reviewed with much scrutiny by many people over the years since there inception as a plot device. The favoured outcome; a rule to correct the problem already laid out in the first Law.

Zeroth Law

0. No robot may harm humanity or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.

This removes ambiguity from the 1st Law, now it only concerns an individual and the Zeroth Law protects humanity as a whole.

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