Can Robotics and AI Save us from Ourselves?

In the popular "Futurama" TV series, one of the main robot characters was Bender. Among his favorite catch phrases was a call for his robotic companions to "kill all humans." It now looks like various biological agents – such as the coronavirus and others – may achieve that end ahead of any robot call to arms. In reality, it now appears that robots and artificial intelligence (AI) may help be one of the saviors of humanity against both natural disasters and our latest biological nemesis. Their new call to arms has become to "kill all viruses."