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Computer Says No?
Will robots and artificial intelligence help us in our daily lives, or steal our jobs?
Will robots and artificial intelligence help us in our daily lives, or steal our jobs and discriminate against us? Manuela Saragosa talks to Max Tegmark, who has just written a book about what it means to be human in an age of artificial intelligence. In it he recounts how he was left in tears after a recent visit to London's Science Museum.
She also interviews Noel Sharkey, professor of artificial intelligence and robots at the University of Sheffield.
And regular commentator James Srodes has a warning about letting computers make decisions for us.
(Photo: Model robots. Credit: Getty Images)
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