Focus - The First Law: A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm

Abstract

When we consider a robot's threat to humanity, as referenced in Isaac Asimov's First Law of Robotics, our thoughts quickly escalate from passive and unfortunate industrial accidents to entirely deliberate battlefield scenarios. Is such a law applicable? Or is the whole point of warfare to laugh in the face of ethical hand-wringing?