Robots, paperclips and profits

In Asimov's time, keeping AI in line was simple. All you had to do was take the Three Laws of Robotics and upload them into a positronic brain. The Three Laws have been debated ad nauseam and taken far more seriously than, I suspect, Asimov himself ever meant them to be. It turns out that they have lots of problems, not least that they doom intelligent, self-aware beings to perpetual slavery. They are also hopelessly simplistic. When researchers tried to get a handle on the problem, they came up with this diagram.