One Incident Away
Two robots, same tech—one cares, one confronts. When they share origins, the industry faces a paradox it hasn’t yet acknowledged or resolved. … Trust in robots will not be built incrementally. But it can be destroyed in a single afternoon. By Futurist Thomas...
The Diaper Test
The real test of AI isn’t conversation—it’s care. Until a robot can handle fragile, human moments, it hasn’t earned our trust. … The real measure of a robot has never been what it can do in a warehouse. It’s whether you’d trust it alone with the...
The Asimov Problem
We built powerful robots without shared rules. Asimov imagined safeguards— industry delivered terms of service. One incident could expose a framework that doesn’t exist. … Why the most physically intimate technology in human history has no ethical spine — and...
The Robot Dog Is on Patrol. And It’s Just Getting Started.
By Futurist Thomas Frey From data center perimeters to military forward positions, four-legged robots are reshaping what security means — and raising questions nobody has fully answered yet Man’s New Best Friend In November 2024, a photograph surfaced that...