In his novel Runaround, Isaac Asimov famously inscribed the First Law of Robotics: “A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.”
Today, the idea of artificial intelligence spontaneously developing its own desires or motivations contra humanity remains firmly within
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