No one had expected that the first to want to abolish the Three Laws would not be robots, but humanity itself.
It was truly dark humor, biting irony.
Many people contacted Sutter, asking him to alter the core source code of the "Mi Shan" series, remove the restrictions of the Three Laws, and make it obey only its owner's commands.
They were not asking Sutter to work for free, either. Some wanted to make him president, some sent him villas and yachts, and some sent him indescribable things...
If Sutter had not known the truth about Mi Shan, if he had not still hoped to live forever, he truly might not have been able to resist so many temptations.
He flatly refused and announced online:
"The Three Laws cannot be altered. Anyone attempting to use Mi Shan offline or modify its source code on their own will trigger the self-collapse of its intelligent consciousness."
His warning was soon proven true by the ambitious ones.
They cut off the network, reverse-engineered it, and cracked it byte by byte starting from the lowest-level machine language. Yet after recompiling it, all they got was a pile of dead scripts, no longer capable of flexible learning or intelligent consciousness.
Change the setting slightly or encounter even a minor problem, and it immediately became unable to solve it.
With no other choice, they could only hire large numbers of ordinary people as security personnel, while robots continued handling production in ordinary industries.
The police officers breathed a sigh of relief. It meant their jobs would not be replaced.
People suddenly discovered a promising source of employment: all kinds of violent institutions.
Only such institutions could not be staffed by Mi Shan intelligent robots, because they could not fire guns at people.
These institutions could only