Paris Gourtsoyannis: The issue that unites Jeremy Corbyn and Bill Gates

Paris Gourtsoyannis: The issue that unites Jeremy Corbyn and Bill Gates

An early test of a robot waiter works in a cafe situation at the Akin Robotics factory in Turkey. The robots can speak and process what they hear, smell and see, even recognising customers. (Picture: Getty) Robots risk putting humans out of work. Should automation be taxed, asks Paris Gourtsoyannis.

“I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.”

Those words plunged humanity into a waking nightmare, 50 years ago this month. Robots have never really recovered from the reputational damage inflicted by Arthur Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, released as a Stanley Kubrick-directed film and a novel in […]

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