Robots may one day rule the world, but what is a robot-ruled Earth like? Dr. Robin Hanson explores the implications of a future world in which researchers have not created artificial general intelligence but have learned to copy humans onto computers, creating “ems,” or emulated people, who quickly come to outnumber the real ones.
Robin Hanson is an Associate Professor of Economics, and received his Ph.D in social sciences from Caltech. He joined George Mason’s economics faculty in 1999 after completing a two-year post-doc at U.C Berkely. His major fields of interest include health policy, regulation, and formal political theory.
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