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The Killer Robot Future Is Already Here

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Robot Dogs Are Fascinating

There's real killer robots out there, right, that have killed people and are killing people probably right now. So why do you think that we've spent the past 15 minutes talking about them? And I think it really comes down to the biomimicry. It's these machines resemble human... Resemble animals that are not just are familiar to us, right? Like robot snakes are unsettling, but we sort of expect that because a lot of people find snakes inherently unsettling. Dogs are unsettling because dogs have such a deep role as companions and helpers. The notion that they could be replaced by machines and then turned into weapons is haunting.

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