Robots Can Now Reproduce

[kieranperez]

https://www.npr.org/2021/12/01/1060027395/robots-xenobots-living-self-replicating-copy

[Preety_India]

Dangerous! 

 

[Tim R]

39 minutes ago, Preety_India said:

*potentially Dangerous! 

Like every technology. There's nothing special about Xenobots in that regard.

[Preety_India]

11 minutes ago, Tim R said:

Like every technology. There's nothing special about Xenobots in that regard.

It is. They don't self replicate. 

[Tim R]

They only self replicate (and survive!) under lab conditions.

And even if they became sophisticated enough to survive and replicate inside let's say a human body, that still doesn't make them dangerous per se.