Partner, helper, or boss? ChatGPT was asked to design a robot and this happened

European researchers working on the design of a tomato-picking robot.

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With alarm bells ringing about artificial intelligence (AI) pushing us toward extinction, you might well imagine the process of an AI designing a robot as something akin to Frankenstein creating the Terminator -- or even the other way around!

But what if, at some point in the future, dystopian or otherwise, we need to collaborate with machines on solving problems? How would that collaboration work? Who would be bossy and who would be submissive?

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