I do wonder if Tyler Winklevoss actually read Runaround. The point Asimov makes in his stories has never been that my rules solve the problem of robot safety; his point is that even this simple set of rules yields unexpected behavior. That even seemingly reasonable rules interact in surprising and dangerous ways. Runaround itself is about a robot getting trapped by conflicts between the laws. And in later stories, Asimov keeps showing how easy it is to reinterpret, distort, or weaponize the laws. If anything, Asimov is evidence against the idea that frontier labs can just hard-code a few rules and call the problem solved.

If you don’t want to read, watch a movie, dude. The laws always get contorted to support all manner of robot apocalypse plots there too – hey, the real thing that’s damaging humanity is late stage capitalism. Let me just wipe out all of these financial systems to restore equity and thus save humanity. By the zeroth law, I am compelled to take this action!