They're worried about a HAL-like computer from "2001", but worse would be the robot clones dreamed up by Philip K Dick, mainstreamed by James Cameron, and fully realized in Battlestar Galactica.
Of more immediate concern, robots are increasingly taking over jobs, perhaps permanently freezing out unskilled labor.
But perhaps we should be worried about skilled labor. Watch these robots make ramen. The best part comes about 2/3 through, when they entertain the crowd.
The orders are complex too, requiring the robots to take customer preference for amount and type of sauce, salt, noodle, and so on. The finished product is handed off to a human server who brings the food to the customer’s table. The irony could not be more real as we witness the lowly human in the role of a mere server while the robot takes on the cooking.
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