Chapter 33 - Gothic's Rethinking of Asimov's 3 Laws of Robotics (Patreon)

A very close inspection of her logs showed that none of my fears or the fears of many a science fiction movie were likely to occur with the laws and restrictions I built into them. With a healthy amount of fear in my heart, I had both modified and gone beyond Asimov’s 3 laws. Instead of humanity, their focus would be on my welfare and survival and those I cared about, but including a core component which emphasized empowering me and preserving my agency as a fundamental concern. There would be no creative interpretation of the laws in such a way that they kept me in stasis as a prisoner in a misguided effort to protect me from everyone and everything, for example. And in the event that they did go off the rails, I had built in inviolable safeguards that I could assert in various ways, everything from temporarily shutting them down, to direct control, to outright permanent deletion/termination.