Robots Will Steal Your Job · #8 ·

Social Acceptance

Technologies that are quite useful and safe do not always achieve widespread social acceptance. In this chapter we explore why that is.

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Chapter Index

00:00 | Intro
00:25 | Chapter Begins
11:37 | Outro

References

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