Washington state Sen. Lisa Wellman is a self-described science fiction fanatic.
Wellman regularly gives teenagers Isaac Asimov’s 1950 short story collection I, Robot. She recalls the book’s famous “Three Laws of Robotics,” which include the provision that “a robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.”
It’s a good lesson, Wellman said, one that some in the tech industry would do well to remember.
