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The robot revolution

Neil M. Richards and William Smart (WASTL): How Should the Law Think About Robots? Stop killer robots: Simon Makin on how autonomous weapons systems could lead to disaster. How will a mass influx of robots affect human employment? Illah Nourbakhsh on how it’s time to talk about the burgeoning robot middle class. Hi, I’m a robot and I’m here to take your job. Computers could take some tough choices out of our hands, if we let them — is there still a place for human judgement? Thought experiment: Jonathon Keats on building a supercomputer replica of the human brain. David Pearce on the Biointelligence Explosion: How recursively self-improving organic robots will modify their own source code and bootstrap our way to full-spectrum superintelligence. Luke Muehlhauser on how predicting AI is more difficult than many people think. The robot revolution is for the birds.