I, Robot
1950 · 224 pages
Robots run on three laws: never harm a human, obey orders, survive. Asimov's stories hunt the cracks in those rules, and roboticists still argue about the Three Laws when drafting AI ethics.
★ 6.3
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
1968 · 244 pages
Rick Deckard hunts androids across a San Francisco emptied by fallout, separating them from people with a test for empathy. At home he keeps an electric sheep and is humiliated by it.
★ 6.4