Don't worry when Google says 'we don't want to answer most of the Qs it triggers' about its new military robot

The video does not say that if Atlas comes after you, it will find you and kill you. Your own paranoid mind made that bit up for itself. But Courtney Hohne, a PR person at the corporate parent of Boston Dynamics, which made Atlas, wrote an internal email that described it as "terrifying, ready to take humans' jobs": We're not going to comment on this video because there's really not a lot we can add, and we don't want to answer most of the Qs it triggers. Here's a snatch of the video she was talking about: Google is now planning to sell Boston Dynamics, the company under Google-parent Alphabet that makes military robots, because they aren't commercial enough. "We don't want to answer most of the Qs it triggers" could mean a lot of different things -- most likely that it is difficult to get across the benefit of a product that can do a bunch of things humans can do when the media atmosphere is filled with humans worrying about machines taking their jobs (robots don't steal jobs, by the way).