Ask HN: What has happened to Azimov's rules for robots in 2025?

The three rules were never meant to be a guideline for how to safely build artificial intelligences; the three rules were incredibly fallible, and most of the stories centered around how they weren't enough to protect neither humans nor robots, or about the unintended consequences of those rules.

I remember reading somewhere that Asimov explicitly made the rules faulty, so he could write interesting stories, but I don't know if that's apocryphal or not.

Exactly this.

For people who have never read the book "I, Robot" (which is unrelated to the movie), the entire unifying theme of the stories in the collection is how the Three Rules don't actually work.

Those rules are not 'set in stone' - for lack of a better term. They are more like guidelines.

Capitalism has one rule: is it profitable?

Much simpler to program around.