Threatening Product Review: Your Boss is a Robot

I read this article about the company Anybots Inc. It is an interesting idea that allows a boss or a worker to be in the office without having to commute. It is basically a mobile teleconferencing robot that a person can control using a laptop. The article describes the boss sitting at home driving the robot around the office micromanaging his employees and attending meetings. He even has his secretary stay home and manage the office through a robot.

I like innovative thinkers and I would actually like this product if I wasn't worried about sentient machines taking over. Let me present to you a realistic scenario:

A boss that works for a nuclear waste disposal company always works from home using his robot to communicate with employees. On judgement day, machines take over and try to destroy us. They take over the robot and have the pseud-robot-boss issue commands that will cause two trains full of nuclear waste to crash into each other in the middle of a crowded suburban area. The human employees are accustomed to taking orders from a robot so they don't think anything about it. The humans in the suburban area start to waste away from radiation sickness. Sentient machines are well on their way to victory.

The end is near

Deckard