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Mary Wakefield

I, robot. You, unemployed

14 January 2016

3:00 PM

14 January 2016

3:00 PM

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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