You Should Be Racist Against Robots
You Should Be Racist Against Robots They're nothing but toys, tools, and potential terrorists JOE ALLEN Robots are not to be trusted. This is as true of ghostly artificial intelligence as it is fleshed out mechanical humanoids. They will offer to serve you or befriend you. They will insist they come in peace. Yeah, well, that’s how they get you. According to uber-enthusiasts, these fabricated creatures are a new race—or rather, a variety of races—that just arrived on earth. The MIT physicist Max Tegmark calls our digital interlopers “ Life 3.0 .” The Wired futurist Kevin Kelly sees the entire spectrum of gadgets and software as a new kingdom of life. First there were bacteria and fungi, plants and animals—and now, springing from human minds and human hands, we have “ the technium .” Arising from this new kingdom are humanoid robots—two-legged impostors who are agile, vocal, and as creative as an ape of God. “This is profoundly disturbing,” exclaimed the soul-denying biologist