Our robotic future and how we should react

Let me tell you a story, a frightening disturbing one, a story about a future we would never have purposefully set out to create.As this is a scary tale, we need to begin in the dark so close your eyes and picture in your mind's eye the first memory you have of a robot.What was it?Perhaps, like me, it was a tin wind-up figure like the one pictured in Image 1.In my case, it sparked into life when I hauled it out of the sack Father Christmas left at the foot of my bed on December 25 th , many, many years ago.I wound it up, released it and saw it teeter unsteadily along my bedroom floor -I was both terrified and delighted

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