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Smart machines probably won’t kill us all—but they’ll definitely take our jobs, and sooner than you think. Read Kevin Drum’s latest, from the magazine.

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This is one of our favorite things of the morning.

(Okay, so it’s from a 1968 New York Timesarticle about George Romney. That changes nothing.)

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"…the reason I’m so bullish on artificial intelligence isn’t because I have such a high regard for AI, but because I have such a low regard for biologic intelligence. Christian argues that computers are good at analytic, left-brain stuff, but humans will fight back with our awesomely passionate right-brain abilities (i.e., we’ll ‘learn how to be better friends, artists, teachers, parents, lovers.’) But you know what? I’ve watched ‘The Bachelor’, and it mostly proves that love can be cynically engineered just as well as any suspension bridge."

— Kevin Drum, who knows a thing or two about computers (and, we imagine, love), in “Our Coming Robot Revolution.”