The Big Robot Questions
Patrick Lin
2012-03-29 00:00:00
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This adaptation to new technology is nothing new. The Industrial Revolution brought great benefits and challenges too, from affordable consumer goods to manufacturing pollution. Likewise, we’re reaping the benefits of the Computer Revolution but also still sorting out ethics and policy arising from it, such as online privacy and intellectual property rights.

If you believe Bill Gates, who says that the robotics industry is now at the point the computer industry was 30 years ago, then we’ll be soon grappling with difficult questions about how to build robots into our society. Here are three key fronts we’ll need to defend:




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IMAGE: Humanoid robots can be synched to imitate the motions of a real human being. Photograph by Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP/Getty Images.