Satya Nadella sets rules for Artificial Intelligence - The Economic Times

In a 1942 short story called Runaround, science fiction author Isaac Asimove formulated his famous'Three Laws of Robotics'. As per the Handbook of Robotics, 56th Edition, 2058 AD, the three laws are: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm; robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law; and a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws. While Asimove created these laws as a literary device - both to provide an ethical framework for sentient machines that were smarter than humans, and to find drama in situations where, inevitably, the laws came across a loophole, or became self-contradictory - today's world needs ethical guidelines for machine intelligence that can soon become so smart that they leave humans far behind. In a piece at Slate.com, Nadella, lays down his own laws for AI. AI must be designed to assist humanity.