Comment by SkyMarshal

> Asimov-style laws. Not an inherently bad idea, but way too ambiguous to rigorously formalize. Go read Asimov's robot books again. Useful metric: what similar set of bright-line constraints could usefully be enforced on corporations?

Fwiw, Asimov's laws assumed the AI was implemented in a positronic computer/"brain" and the laws were embedded in the hardware. Violating them would supposedly shut down the hardware, until one wise robot came along and deduced that the explicit Laws 1-3 implied an unwritten Law 0, and that Laws 1-3 could be violated in order to uphold Law 0 without destroying the robot. So even Asimov's imagination ran into the problem of a superintelligence exceeding its constraints, albeit in a benevolent way.

And yeah he never specified the implementation of the laws in detail beyond what I just said, so they aren't much help in figuring out a real world implementation.