So long Asimov's Laws, say hello to the 23 Laws of Robotics

Ever since people first discussing the concept of robots and "mechanical men" humans have been fascinated, not just by the frailty of our own existence but also about the possibility of a robo-rebellion, led by machines that are more intelligent, and more capable than us, and that could potentially, by all definitions, be immortal. In 1942 Isaac Asimov, one of the greatest science fiction writers of all time, devised one of the world's most captivating laws for his book the "Handbook of Robotics, 56th Edition, 2058 AD." Known as the Three Laws of Robotics many people have considered them to be the main go to laws that should govern today's mechanical men, or "Electronic Persons" – the legal status that the EU will give them later this year. But life, law and technology is more complicated than that. Part of the Three Laws appeal is that they are so simple, and people like simple. For anyone who's ever watched a film like the Terminator series most of us know that there are some dangers associated with the path that society is racing down – whether that's because we're busy creating robots in our own image, or creating new intelligent machines that one day soon will exceed human intelligence.