Question: In 100 years,will the earth be taken over by robots

Zoe Vance answered on 12 Mar 2025:

It’s not my area of science, and 100 years is a pretty long time so who knows what the earth will be like by then, but my gut feeling is no? We would need to intentionally make robots that are intelligent enough to take over, that have some kind of drive to want to do that and that are able to maintain themselves and build more robots (basically, that don’t have any need for humans). These things feel technically quite difficult to achieve, very resource intensive to keep going at a planet-taking-over scale and also maybe kind of silly for us to do. So fingers crossed no robot uprising!