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** This is canon in Asimov's stories, too—the Three Laws are programmed into every positronic brain on the most basic structural level. In "Escape!", Mike Donovan becomes nervous that a prototype spaceship designed by a robot might kill them. Greg Powell rebukes him: "Don't pretend you don't know your robotics, Mike. Before it's physically possible in any way for a robot to even make a start to breaking the First Law, so many things have to break down that it would be a ruined mess of scrap ten times over." {{spoiler|Actually, in this case, the jump through hyperspace ''does'' result in Powell and Donovan's "deaths"--but since [[Unexplained Recovery|they get better]] when the ship reemerges into real space, the robot judged that it didn't quite violate the First Law}}, but the strain of making this leap in logic still managed to send one supercomputer into full meltdown and another into something resembling psychosis.
** The story also includes an in-depth discussion of why, in a society where robots are everywhere, the Three Laws can be a bad thing.
* The golems of ''[[Discworld]]'' are not specifically "Three Laws"-Compliant as such, but more or less bound to obey instructions and incapable of harming humans. However, this doesn't stop the common perception of golems from running towards the aforementioned Frankenstein model, [[Bothering by the Book|and golems are known for following orders indefinitely until explicitly told to stop]]. ''[[
** To elaborate, the Golems were ''originally'' three-laws-compliant and all followed the directives on the scrolls in their heads. Vetinari just added on a few words.
** Also completely averted with {{spoiler|Dorfl, who at one time had a chem and was "Three Laws"-Compliant but upon his chem being destroyed and still able to move, as words in the heart cannot be destroyed, he only follows the Three Laws because he chooses to do so.}}
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* On ''[[Archer]]'', when Pam is kidnapped, the kidnappers call ISIS using a voice modulator, which makes Archer think that they are cyborgs. He remains convinced of this for the rest of the episode and thinks they won't make good on their threat to kill Pam because it would violate the First Law of Robotics.
== Other Media ==
* At a 1985 convention, [[David Langford]] gave [http://www.ansible.co.uk/writing/crystal.html a guest of honour speech] in which he detailed what he suspected the Three Laws would actually be:
{{quote|1. A robot will not harm authorised Government personnel but will terminate intruders with extreme prejudice.
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