Facing facts

[doodab]

BBC News - Risk of robot uprising wiping out human race to be studied

Face it, we're stuffed.

[sbakoola]

nothing like putting tax payers money to good use... eh ..

[doodab]

nothing like putting tax payers money to good use... eh ..

It seems like rather a good use to me. I don't want to be enslaved by machines and used as a source of energy and nutrients.

[MarillionFan]

It seems like rather a good use to me. I don't want to be enslaved by machines and used as a source of energy and nutrients.

What if it was an alien race of 7 foot alien Amazonian women who did the same???

[MarillionFan]

Are they green?

No the orange ones from the Planet Dickinson

[NickFitz]

nothing like putting tax payers money to good use... eh ..

Nothing there to suggest it's funded by the taxpayer. Cambridge University has shedloads of money (I relieved them of a chunk of it on a gig the other year), and plenty of private funding for research. As one of the founders of this centre is a co-founder of Skype, I would imagine he's got a bit of spare change knocking about.

[hyperD]

The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) will study dangers posed by biotechnology, artificial life, nanotechnology and climate change.

Ah, there it is.

[cailin maith]

Skynet

It's a bit like that Siri person who lives in the iPhone. Feck that, I'm not having a robot tell me what to do.

I don't like it.

[eek]

[Gibbon]

Skynet

It's a bit like that Siri person who lives in the iPhone. Feck that, I'm not having a robot tell me what to do.

I don't like it.

You put up with Spod though?