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How Asimov’s 3 laws of Robotics when applied to governments can make earth a fantabulous place to live in for all humans

Kiran Krishnan
4 min readDec 27, 2020

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Law of Robotics to World leaders give safe earth

Asimov’s Three Laws are as follows:

A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.

Now replace “robot” with “government” as below

A government may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

A government must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

A government must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.

Let us take each of the point and understand how the three laws of robots when applied to governments across the world can make a heaven out of earth.

People choose their government and the government is only their representative. The head of the government is a mere replaceable apex of the iceberg whose…

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Kiran Krishnan
Kiran Krishnan

Written by Kiran Krishnan

Life enthusiast; Seeker; Renaissance man; Life long student ; Self taught scientist.

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