The rapid development of robots and Artificial Intelligence over the past decades has led prognosticators to try and fathom the future of this technology. This cover of the ‘New Yorker magazine’ published in 2017 represents robots walking past a man who is begging on the sidewalk with his real dog, highlighting the widespread fear that robots might jeopardize humanity. Is that a realistic vision of the future or a hackneyed apocalypse scenario? In other words, are robots a real threat to humankind? If such fears are grounded in fact indeed, they may also be mitigated.
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