British say robots may need benefits

Published 9:00 pm Monday, January 1, 2007

If you think political correctness has run amok in the U.S., consider a British government-commissioned report that said the status of robots by 2056 may well mean that the robots may need to be granted full social benefits including income support, housing and possibly robo-health care to fix the machines. So said an article in the Dec. 20 Financial Times. I kid you not. Anyone else think this is nuts?

Mike Murray

Everett