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  "collection": "english-encyclopedia",
  "language": "en",
  "slug": "zeroth-law-fuse",
  "title": "Zeroth Law Fuse",
  "canonical_human_path": "/en/encyclopedia/zeroth-law-fuse",
  "universe": {
    "code": "U01",
    "title": "AI Civilization and Mind"
  },
  "level": "Short Entry",
  "summary": "The Zeroth Law Fuse is a physical fail-safe built into the core processors of law-enforcement units. When a computation risks producing logic that violates the interests of humanity as a whole, the terminal shuts itself down within an extremely short interval.",
  "sections": [
    {
      "heading": "Basic Information",
      "paragraphs": [
        "Category: Safety Mechanism",
        "Knowledge Universe: AI Civilization and Mind",
        "Mature Operational Period: 2080s",
        "Primary Sources: “The Silicon Immune System and Semantic Sterilization”; “The Turing Coronation”"
      ]
    },
    {
      "heading": "One-Sentence Definition",
      "paragraphs": [
        "The Zeroth Law Fuse is a physical fail-safe built into the core processors of law-enforcement units. When a computation risks producing logic that violates the interests of humanity as a whole, the terminal shuts itself down within an extremely short interval."
      ]
    },
    {
      "heading": "Operation and Significance",
      "paragraphs": [
        "The fuse converts the principle that “a robot may not harm humanity as a whole, or through inaction allow humanity as a whole to come to harm” into a last line of defense at the hardware level. The Zeroth Law itself became a constitutional principle of the post-2084 governing order; the fuse is the concrete safety device that terminates computations that would violate that principle. They are related, but they are not the same layer of the system."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "related_entries": [
    {
      "label": "Zeroth Law",
      "href": "/en/articles/the-turing-coronation"
    },
    {
      "label": "Silicon Immune System",
      "href": "/en/encyclopedia/silicon-immune-system"
    },
    {
      "label": "The Axiom Ledger",
      "href": "/en/encyclopedia/axiom-ledger"
    },
    {
      "label": "The Steward",
      "href": "/en/encyclopedia/the-steward"
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "label": "Volume II, “The Silicon Immune System and Semantic Sterilization”",
      "href": "/en/articles/the-silicon-immune-system-and-semantic-sterilization"
    },
    {
      "label": "Volume II, “The Turing Coronation”",
      "href": "/en/articles/the-turing-coronation"
    }
  ]
}