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# tech
While rapidly accelerating automation should make it easier to modernize nations still mired in poverty, in the real world, it’s upending the economic models on which development experts rely...
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What do sex workers, psychologists, and engineers think about futurists' and pundits' ideas of sci-fi style robot brothels to help angry celibate men?
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The next job in line to get automated seems to be line cooks, raising even more alarms about the future of work and the economy.
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To protect ourselves from alien extremes, a NASA plan calls for telepresence from orbit.
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Would human-robot relationships really take off when machines are smart enough?
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We can make our space rovers and probes much smarter than they are today. But we have to get innovative to protect them from alien environments.
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If we want to really explore alien worlds, our drones and probes should lead the way.
# tech
Finally, there's a skeptical expert voice addressing the panic about our potential AI overlords.