1 rich Libsyn https://www.libsyn.com 90 600 In 1942, a 22-year-old chemistry student and part-time writer set down three short rules for how a fictional robot ought to behave. His aim was to kill off the lazy &quot;robot-as-Frankenstein-monster&quot; cliché. More than eighty years later, real engineers, real ethicists and real lawmakers are still arguing about them. This is the first of two episodes on Isaac Asimov — one of the &quot;big dogs&quot; of science fiction whose output ran to some five hundred books. John Helmer and Ezri Carlebach take on the most enduring part of that legacy: the Three Laws of Robotics. The Laws went on to power nine linked short stories in&amp;nbsp;I, Robot, several films, hundreds of academic papers, and an argument about AI safety that shows no sign of ending any time soon. In this episode: The man and the output Robots before Asimov I, Robot as nine thought experiments Susan Calvin — one of SF's first great female scientists The Three Laws and the trolley problem Coming next:&amp;nbsp;Foundation Links and resources: Website: techimaginarium.co.uk Instagram: @tech.imaginarium Watch on YouTube:&amp;nbsp;https://www.youtube.com/@JohnHelmerConsulting Music by Nick Dwyer recording as Flintet. The Tech Imaginarium is a Learning Hack podcast, produced and hosted by John Helmer and written by John Helmer and Ezri Carlebach. The Learning Hack podcast https://learninghackpodcast.com/ <iframe title="Libsyn Player" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/41557905/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/87A93A/" height="90" width="600" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe> https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/content/202688975