When the science fiction writer Isaac Asimov envisioned a future shared by human beings and robots, he predicted that the mechanical servants of tomorrow would be safely controlled by only three simple laws.

But when Japan’s notoriously zealous bureaucracy looks into the future, it sees robots enmeshed in miles of red tape.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article1620558.ece

Asimov’s three laws:

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

— A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law

— A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law

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