The notion of a robotic future is terrifying to many humans. However, the Right Rev Steven Croft has made efforts to fix this by writing a set of new commandments for robots.

Croft’s commandments follow his appointment as a member of a House of Lords select committee on artificial intelligence. They are essentially Asimov’s laws of robotics rewritten to reflect a present where artificial intelligence already plays an important part in many of our day to day interactions.

They are also quite dry. They include long slogs such as: “The primary purpose of AI should be to enhance and augment, rather than replace human labour and creativity,” and “All citizens have the right to be adequately educated to flourish mentally, emotionally, and economically in a digital and artificially intelligent world”. Whoever is tasked with carving them into stone tablets will probably die of boredom by the third one. And then they will be replaced by a robot and all of this will have been for nothing. So here, then, are 10 much better robot commandments.