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The Terminator and the Uprising Against Humans
The Terminator scenario was all over the news recently because robotics company Boston Dynamics put out a video where their engineer kept poking a barrel-chested humanoid robot with a stick while it was trying to lift boxes. "I'm afraid they're not exactly conscious of what that entails," says Eric Soffshie, author of Robots Should Be Slaves. Some roboticists have argued that robots are never going to be self-aware and if they just embrace the fact that they are servants because they don't have consciousness. But in this case, they're talking about things that literally are not human.
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