Putin Warns We May Be Facing the Rise of the Machines

One of the factory workers shared his concerns with the president that his place might be taken by a machine one day. "Is there a danger of it?" "Yep, such a threat exists. But to prevent it from happening, one needs to be prepared for it," the Russian president famously remarked. Separately, Putin has underscored that the creative potential of a human being will never be rivaled by artificial intelligence. On 21 September 2017, President Putin briefly spoke to the pinnacle of engineering development, the robot Alice while on a visit to the Moscow office of the Russian search giant Yandex.