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Mary Wakefield

I, robot. You, unemployed

The machines are taking over the world and we will be standing idly by

16 January 2016

9:00 AM

16 January 2016

9:00 AM

One evening last autumn, four experts in the field of artificial intelligence arrived in Westminster with an urgent message for our government. There’s a robot revolution on the way, they said, and unless we prepare for it we’re in trouble.

The briefing was a quiet affair — I was one of only a few journalists invited, for fear of headlines like ‘The Terminator is coming’.

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