When I talk to people about AI, inevitably we land on the topic of killer robots. This image of The Terminator and other superintelligent technology that is “out to get us” is a staple in science fiction. Our relationship to robots in the west has a long history of dystopian imagery. The word robot itself was first introduced in the 1920s in a play by Czech writer Karl Čapek called R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots). This was a time when the industrial revolution was causing