{"id":148382,"date":"2022-10-18T01:23:11","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T06:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/killer-robots-are-already-here-they-just-dont-look-like-you-think"},"modified":"2022-10-18T01:23:11","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T06:23:11","slug":"killer-robots-are-already-here-they-just-dont-look-like-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/killer-robots-are-already-here-they-just-dont-look-like-you-think","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Killer Robots\u2019 Are Already Here. They Just Don\u2019t Look Like You Think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/knoOXBLFQ-s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You might suppose Hollywood is good at predicting the future. Indeed, Robert Wallace, head of the CIA\u2019s Office of Technical Service and the US equivalent of MI6\u2019s fictional Q, has recounted how Russian spies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/military\/a12043\/4267549\/\">would watch the latest Bond movie<\/a> to see what technologies might be coming their way.<\/p>\n<p>Hollywood\u2019s continuing obsession with killer robots might therefore be of significant concern. The newest such movie is Apple TV\u2019s forthcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/florence-pugh-dolly-movie-murderous-sex-robot-apple-tv-plus\/\">sex robot courtroom drama <em>Dolly<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I never thought I\u2019d write the phrase \u201csex robot courtroom drama\u201d, but there you go. Based on a <a href=\"https:\/\/apex-magazine.com\/short-fiction\/dolly\/\">2011 short story<\/a> by Elizabeth Bear, the plot concerns a billionaire killed by a sex robot that then asks for a lawyer to defend its murderous actions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might suppose Hollywood is good at predicting the future. Indeed, Robert Wallace, head of the CIA\u2019s Office of Technical Service and the US equivalent of MI6\u2019s fictional Q, has recounted how Russian spies would watch the latest Bond movie to see what technologies might be coming their way. Hollywood\u2019s continuing obsession with killer robots [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1901],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}