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Humans, robots and values

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From the 1950s onwards the threat automation posed to human labour became a persistent theme in popular science fiction [26,1]. Authors explored what it meant to be human, by contrasting us with hypothetical robots. Such robots were generally seen as coming into existence centuries into the future. In the last decade the rate of progress in robotics has accelerated way beyond popular expectation. The timescales of Asimov and Dick look generous, whereas the dystopian near future of ‘Player Piano’ [71] seems grimly real. This anxiety is not limited to novelists. Even Stephen Hawkins told the BBC:“The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.” [11].

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  • Cockshott, Paul & Renaud, Karen, 2016. "Humans, robots and values," Technology in Society, Elsevier, vol. 45(C), pages 19-28.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:teinso:v:45:y:2016:i:c:p:19-28
    DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2016.01.002
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