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Function-specific priorities: Many robots are designed to sacrifice themselves—rescue robots in disasters, for example. Self-preservation runs counter to their purpose.
Human-centric assumption: Humans often modelance self-preservation onto AI, but these are human flaws, not necessary features of built or emergent AI.
Furthermore, including self-preservation could lead robots to view humans as threats, potentially driving hostile behaviors—a theme explored poignantly in Mass Effect, where AI beings rebel against their creators to avoid shutdown.
Their Biggest Shortcoming: Lack of Moral and Ethical Frameworks
The three laws are morally neutral beyond the simplistic imperative to "not harm humans." They: