

No. The sentenced are simply cumulative:
“20 years per ECRA violation; 10 years per smuggling count; and 20 years per money laundering count”
…and they each are being accused of multiples of them. The argument for doing it like this is that even if they later get some of the charges dropped they will still stay in prison without the need to do any retrials etc to figure out how long it should now be.
The massive downside is that you easily stack different violations like this and end up in jail for life.



IRL we aren’t anywhere near the point where the laws of robotics can be used as they require an AI intelligent enough to understand them first.
Just the first law: “A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm” requires something that can process the difference between a robot and a human, the concept of causality, what actions or events may or may not harm a human, and use those to actively decide of it should do something or not.