As I alluded to earlier, to me the books were more an exploration into man’s hubris to think control could be asserted by failed attempts to distill spoken and unspoken human rules into a few “laws”.

Giskard and Daneel spend quite a lot of time discussing the impenetrable laws that govern human action. That sounds more like what is happening in the current frontier of AI than mechanical trains of thought that only have single pathways to travel, which is closer to how Asimov described it in the Robots books.

Edit: I feel like I’m failing to make my point clearly here. Sorry. Maybe an LLM can rephrase it for me. (/s lol)