'Die human or live forever as a cyborg': Will robots rule us?

But Peter Scott-Morgan has never been afraid of robots. As a scientist and roboticist by trade, he spent decades researching how artificial intelligence (AI) might transform our lives. Then, in 2017, Dr Scott-Morgan was diagnosed with motor neuron disease, the same paralysing condition that killed Stephen Hawking. Months after puzzling over his "wonky foot" falling asleep, he was told he had two years to live. To survive, he would turn to the technology he had spent his career researching.