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 “Today,” he warns, “we have people doing work like robots. Tomorrow, we will have ''robots behaving like people''”.
-No bad thing, you might say — who will miss a few bankers?
+No bad thing, you might say — who will miss the bankers?
-One can detect in this the fashionable view that technology is at a tipping point, at which ''we'' will be tipped out. No longer will machines be better than we sacks of meat at routine tasks, but they will outdo us at the ''hard'' stuff, too.
+One can detect in this the fashionable view that technology is at a tipping point, at which ''we'' will be tipped out. The machines are coming for us. They have taken over our routine tasks, but they will outdo us at the ''hard'' stuff, too.
 A fashionable view. But a big call, all the same.