Even the most complex robots currently produced are incapable of understanding and applying the Three Laws; significant advances in artificial intelligence would be needed to do so, and even if AI could reach human-level intelligence, the inherent ethical complexity as well as cultural/contextual dependency of the laws prevent them from being a good candidate to formulate robotics design constraints.
Čak i najkompleksniji roboti koji se trenutno proizvode nisu u stanju da razumeju i primene Tri zakona; uznapredovala veštačka inteligencija bi trebalo da bude to u stanju, a čak i kad bi dostigla nivo ljudske inteligencije, etička kompleksnost Tri zakona kao i njihova kulturološka/kontekstualna uslovljenost ne bi ih činila dobrim kandidatom za formulisanje ograničenja prilikom konstrukcije robota.