{"id":1189,"date":"2026-04-24T17:07:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T07:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/?p=1189"},"modified":"2026-04-24T17:07:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T07:07:36","slug":"why-asimovs-three-laws-shouldnt-be-the-blueprint-for-ai-principles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/?p=1189","title":{"rendered":"Why Asimov\u2019s Three Laws Shouldn\u2019t Be the Blueprint for AI Principles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/reefwing_A_lone_humanoid_robot_standing_motionless_on_a_crack_5bd1a6c3-f85a-4494-a36e-da2afbc41678_1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"574\" src=\"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/reefwing_A_lone_humanoid_robot_standing_motionless_on_a_crack_5bd1a6c3-f85a-4494-a36e-da2afbc41678_1-1024x574.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/reefwing_A_lone_humanoid_robot_standing_motionless_on_a_crack_5bd1a6c3-f85a-4494-a36e-da2afbc41678_1-1024x574.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/reefwing_A_lone_humanoid_robot_standing_motionless_on_a_crack_5bd1a6c3-f85a-4494-a36e-da2afbc41678_1-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/reefwing_A_lone_humanoid_robot_standing_motionless_on_a_crack_5bd1a6c3-f85a-4494-a36e-da2afbc41678_1-768x430.png 768w, https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/reefwing_A_lone_humanoid_robot_standing_motionless_on_a_crack_5bd1a6c3-f85a-4494-a36e-da2afbc41678_1.png 1456w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"9668\">Every time a news story breaks about some new AI mishap, a chatbot lying to a user, a self-driving car making a dodgy decision, a recommendation engine nudging teenagers toward inappropriate content, someone in the comments inevitably writes, \u201cWe just need Asimov\u2019s Three Laws.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"39a0\">The trouble is that Isaac Asimov wrote the Three Laws as a plot device, not as an engineering specification. Almost every story he wrote about them was about how they fail. It is a bit like reading&nbsp;<em>Jurassic Park<\/em>&nbsp;and concluding that you now have a solid operating manual for cloning dinosaurs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If we are serious about building safe AI, and particularly if we are building the sort of layered, bio-inspired systems that drive physical robots, we need to start from a different foundation. This article explains why, and proposes a replacement set of principles drawn from the Primal Layers framework.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/towards-artificial-intelligence\/why-asimovs-three-laws-shouldn-t-be-the-blueprint-for-ai-principles-b41504e7c42c?sk=7d0bbac6588ce7ae6270120e08811908\">Read the complete article&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every time a news story breaks about some new AI mishap, a chatbot lying to a user, a self-driving car making a dodgy decision, a recommendation engine nudging teenagers toward inappropriate content, someone in the comments inevitably writes, \u201cWe just need Asimov\u2019s Three Laws.\u201d The trouble is that Isaac Asimov wrote the Three Laws as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[49,45,6],"tags":[9,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-1189","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-ai","7":"category-embedded","8":"category-title-post","9":"tag-development","10":"tag-embedded-ai","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1192,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions\/1192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}