Welcome, Robot Overlords. Please Don’t Fire Us? – Mother Jones
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Smart machines probably won’t kill us all—but they’ll definitely take our jobs, and sooner than you think.
Illustrations by Roberto Parada This is a story about the future. Not the unhappy future, the one where climate change turns the planet into a cinder or we all die in a global nuclear war. This is the happy version. It’s the one where computers keep getting smarter and smarter, and clever engineers keep building better and better robots. By 2040, computers the size of a softball are as smart as human beings. Smarter, in fact. Plus they’re computers : They never get tired, they’re never ill-tempered, they never make mistakes, and they have instant access to all of human knowle
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