American author and biochemistry professor who wrote more than 500 books — including the Foundation series, the Robot series, and the Three Laws of Robotics — and who is considered one of the Big Three of science fiction alongside Clarke and Heinlein.
Invented the robot ethics framework and the concept of psychohistory — Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics (a robot may not injure a human, must obey orders, must protect itself — in that order) created the template for AI alignment before computers could do it; Foundation's psychohistory (predicting civilizational trajectories with math) influenced complexity science.
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