It makes sense to be wary of technologies designed to eliminate human labor. We’re humans ourselves, after all, and we can imagine how devastating it would be if bots could take over our jobs — if HAL or Siri or some other thing could saddle up to our standing desks and compose in-depth analysis, nuanced commentary, and scathing satire. But some jobs are so dangerous that we might be better handing them off to robots…
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