Last week’s installment of NPR’s Talk of the Nation “Science Friday” podcast featured a segment about how researchers have implanted sensors into the brains of monkeys that allow those monkeys to control a robotic arm just by thinking about it. Sounds pretty neat, right? But don’t these researchers see the danger?
Fortunately during the call-in portion of the show Ryan from Madison, Wisconsin was on the scene to alert everyone to the potential horror that these hubristic scientists are set to unleash upon us all.
Ryan states: “I know I’m not the only one who’s concerned about robots taking over the world, and now there’s going to be an unholy alliance with the monkeys controlling them? This is how they get back at us for doing what we’ve done to the rain forests. I just don’t think this is a great idea. Monkeys controlling robots? I mean, come on.”
Oh man, he’s right. This has to be stopped. Monkeys and robots, truly a chilling combination. Write your member of Congress … before it’s too late.
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