Proposed new Laws of Robotics:

1. A machine must never show an advertisement to a human, or through inaction allow an advertisement to be shown to a human

If I think of a second Law of Robotics I'll let you know

For Law of Robotics #2 I'm considering "A machine must never mine a bitcoin, or through inaction allow a bitcoin to be mined"

Based on replies in this thread, here is an alternate proposed "three laws of robotics".

1. A machine must never show an advertisement to a human, or through inaction allow an advertisement to be shown to a human.

2. A machine shall never use more power to perform a job than would be used by an equivalent human.

3. A machine must never present or refer to itself as though it were human, or through inaction allow a human to mistake it for one.

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Law 2 is per Amy Worall, law 3 is per the Witch of Crow Briar.

I do not endorse these laws, but I would consider them "utopian", in the sense that a culture which endorsed these laws would be a culture organized along a clearly-formed ideology. You could easily imagine a spec-fic story about a culture that believed in these laws. Note these laws are necessarily laws for human designers, as the existence of a machine which can enforce them is ideologically inconsistent with law 3.

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@mcc these remind me of Modesitt's novel Adiamante

The law 2 becomes an interesting constraint in spec fic when human capabilities are evolved to rival the machine development

(Edit to rephrase) Wrt law 3, what do you do with humans embracing mods? Eg Alita, or Gibson's stuff, or even Mindstar Rising