The Three Laws of Robotics are presented in Isaac Asimov’s 1950 collection “I, Robot,” attributed in the fiction to a Handbook of Robotics. Far from depicting the Laws as a reliable safeguard, the stories - beginning with “Runaround,” where a robot is paralyzed by a balance between the obey and self-preservation laws - turn on the Laws interacting, conflicting, and producing unintended results.