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Law Zero: A robot may not injure humanity, or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.

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Jazar, R.N. (2007). Introduction. In: Theory of Applied Robotics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-68964-7_1

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