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    Robots

    Jun 30, 2021 3 minutes

    THE NEW BREED

    HOW TO THINK ABOUT ROBOTS

    KATE DARLING

    Allen Lane, 336pp, £20

    Kate Darling, author of a new book on future automation, is an expert in technology ethics at MIT. Moral panics about imminent robot takeovers are, she says, ‘faith-based, not science’. Darling argues that the chief problem with robots is the way we human beings think about them: as James Bloodworth put it in the : ‘we should stop thinking of robots as “quasi-humans”. Instead we should enjoyed an ‘original, humane book’ and he quoted Darling: ‘Like robots, animals can sense, make their own decisions, act on the world, and learn.’ But they cannot replace human beings.

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