Artificial Intelligence: Will smart machines soon become mainstream in business operations?

Should robots be given'personhood' status? That was the topic being debated by the European parliament earlier this month, along with whether or not a kill switch should be added in case there is a terminator style uprising. Does this mean that robots and machines are slowly taking over? There hasn't been a machine uprising. You may be thinking that the likes of robots, smart machines and artificial intelligence is something you might only read about in Sci-Fi novels or see in films, but actually, artificial intelligence and smart machines are nothing new.