The Age of Em
Work, love and life when robots rule the Earth
The Age of Em launched on January 26, 2016 with 61 votes, #1,522 of 4,520 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.
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The Age of Em by Robin Hanson: Work, Love and Life when Robots Rule the Earth.
Robots may one day rule the world , but what is a robot-ruled Earth like? Many think the first truly smart robots will be brain emulations or ems . Scan a human brain, then run a model with the same connections on a fast computer, and you have a robot brain, but recognizably human. Train an em to do some job and copy it a million times: an army of workers is at your disposal. When they can be made cheaply, within perhaps a century, ems will displace humans in most jobs. In this new economic era, the world economy may double in size every few weeks. Some say we can't know the future, especially following such a disruptive new technology, but Professor Robin Hanson sets out to prove them…from ageofem.com
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