"A robot may not injure humanity, or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm."
— Isaac Asimov

January 1, 1970

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Robots and Empire (1985); a variant of this first occurred in The Evitable Conflict (1950) as: No robot may harm humanity, or through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.