Video: Why we don’t need to fear intelligent robots

Mar 25, 2015

Ken Goldberg

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Ken Goldberg from the University of California, Berkeley, says it’s time to forget “Singularity” and the threat of Artificial Intelligence taking over the world. The future, he says, is “Multiplicity”, where a diverse group of humans and robots work together to find solutions.

Author: Ken Goldberg is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

Image: The hand of humanoid robot AILA (artificial intelligence lightweight android) operates a switchboard. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch.

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