How to stop machines enslaving humans

Kevin Warwick, professor of cybernetics at Reading University and author of the book March of the Machines, introduced a brainstorming salon at the Institute for Social Inventions in London in April 1998. He explained how computers and robots are already as intelligent as ants and that within 20 years they will have a computational power far greater than the human brain and will be evolving at a far faster rate than humans…