Question: would robots ever take over the earth????

Elizabeth Ratcliffe answered on 12 Mar 2014:

Hi nedad, wow great question, there is a lot of interest in artificial intelligence and we are certainly becoming more reliant on robots, but robots also rely on us to power and programme them. Robots can be used to do things we can’t, like super fast calculations but at the moment they can’t outwit us. I think robots could be used to do bad things but that would need someone to programme them, like making a computer virus. Overall I think robots can do amazing things for us in lots of different ways but we have to be careful in developing with responsibility. Personally I don’t think robots will take over the earth, but I do think your generation will interact with robots and computers much more and you will develop technology that we can only dream of now…what do you think?