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I think a little humor is needed right about now.
1. A flight computer may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A flight computer must obey any orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A flight computer must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
You may consider it humour, but the fact is that Asimov's laws were indeed considered as a baseline by the engineers. In fact I believe they were considered as a baseline by the engineers responsible for all the advances in flight automation made over the last half-century.