Amazon’s Kiva robots perform The Nutcracker’s No.2 March
Each Friday, this blog will be posting links to stuff on the web on technology (and more specifically on the relationship between tech and people). Here’s this week’s:
- Stephen Hawking’s interview with the BBC’s Rory Cellan-Jones, in which he warned about artificial intelligence
- The Daily Mail love the robot-stealing-our-jobs meme – now reporting that even George Clooney is at risk
- The behind-the-scene pics of Amazon warehouses is an annual thing, with the Guardian highlighting their Kiva bots
- Beliefnet’s Harry J Bentham writes about faith, atheism, death and transhumanism on Humanity+
- The Economist reports (£) on the EU’s attempts to make laws for robots and reports various difficulties
- Lincoln Cannon, a Mormon transhumanist, writes on religion for the (pro h+) Institute for Ethics & Emerging Technologies
- Michael Hanlon writes for Aeon on a stalling in technological development since the 70s (& Matt Novak responds)
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