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Why we could all be replaced by robots in the near future

In a recent story for Mother Jones, writer Kevin Drum says by the year 2025 robots will take all of our jobs.

Lately it seems like we talk about Moore’s law at least once a week on our show. It’s the idea that our computing power jumps forward by leaps and bounds every two years — so fast that soon our computers will be as smart as we are.

Kevin Drum is a writer at the magazine Mother Jones, and he’s just written a long piece about intelligent robots and how by the year 2025, they’ll be taking ALL of our jobs. Don’t worry though — he says that’s a good thing — as long as we divvy up the computing power fairly.

 

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