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Chris Malcolm Why robots won't rule the world online This is a general resource page for arguments against the idea that robots (or some other superintelligent machines) will supersede us as the dominant ``life’’ form and take over the world from us. These arguments have received a lot of publicity in the national press of many countries, on TV and radio, and in popular science journals such as Scientific American. I’m surprised that so many well-educated people take the ideas seriously. Since they do, it is worth while explaining why these ideas are silly.

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This is a general resource page for arguments against the idea that robots (or some other superintelligent machines) will supersede us as the dominant ``life’’ form and take over the world from us. These arguments have received a lot of publicity in the national press of many countries, on TV and radio, and in popular science journals such as Scientific American. I’m surprised that so many well-educated people take the ideas seriously. Since they do, it is worth while explaining why these ideas are silly.

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