I thought that immediately too!

Asimov had a penchant for predicting the future, and it's been fascinating seeing aspects of his vision in "I, Robot" come to pass.

The whole point of his books was about how such rules were effectively impossible and the wrong way to go about making AI safe.

You need something like a calculus of morality and ethics - this is incredibly uncomfortable for people, because it will mean the invalidation of moral relativity and all sorts of arbitrary dogmatic and ideological tradition, and demonstrate a rational basis for intersubjective interaction. ( Take your is/ought distinction and bury it with Hume.)

We need progress, and the sooner we start, the less damage will be done by unaligned systems.