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(1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
(2) A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the first law.
(3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the first or second law.
- Isaac Asimov, I, Robot
In his groundbreaking collection of short stories, the great science fiction writer Issac Asimov portrayed a future where technology, developed in service to humankind, ultimately runs amok and creates a wave of fear and anarchy in society. Intelligent machines constructed with artificial consciousness ultimately decide that serving themselves is more important than helping their creators.
While we have not quite reached an I, Robot moment today, the technology industry stands at an inflection point where our faith in it rests on a knife’s edge. A range of highly publicized challenges in the digital world has continued to erode public trust in information technology over the past few years, including:
• Data breaches caused by bad actors, ranging from rival corporations to insider threats to state-sponsored hackers, have resulted in the well-publicized theft of intellectual property, the breakdown of digital privacy and financial losses.
• Mass media, from news outlets to social media networks, being weaponized to deceive people in order to impact elections and create social strife.