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F rom Fritz Lang ’ s tragic heroine , Maria , to the mutinous HAL 9000 and the Johnny Cab in Total Recall , we ’ ve been thinking about how robots would fit into our society since the 6th Century BC , when Homer and his contemporaries wrote of clay statues come to life in Hephaestus ’ divine forge . Unfortunately , our robot future has yet to materialise . However , due to advances in deep learning and artificial intelligence ( AI ), some version of a society in which humankind coexists with our very own ‘ clay statues come to life ’ is closer than we may realise .
When AI started being used to improve robotic process automation and otherwise take over tasks from human labourers , the alarm bells were sounded frantically . In 2013 , the University of Oxford predicted that approximately 50 % of jobs in the United States and about 33 % in the UK would be put at high risk of automation in the following years . However ,
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