• Question: what if robots put humans out of their jobs?

    Asked by YasQ to Deborah on 11 Jun 2017. This question was also asked by Maisha.
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      Deborah Aitken answered on 11 Jun 2017:

      All terminator films make me think this would be a bad thing!

      Seriously though, I think we are a long way off robots being able to do everything humans can. They can do a lot of things but they still can’t think creatively. This might be a good thing – maybe if robots are doing all the boring jobs humans can do fun jobs that need us to imagine new things? Who knows what humans could do if we didn’t have to do chores!

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