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A robot loaded a part into a milling machine.
A robot loaded a part into a milling machine at Alexandria Industries in Alexandria, Minn., on April 9, 2015. Skilled workers no longer need to load the machine. One worker can oversee three robotically loaded machines.
Dan Gunderson | MPR News

What are the benefits, and the possible dangers, of artificial intelligence? Are computers and thinking machines a huge help to humankind's daily life or a threat to our civilization? Cynthia Breazeal of MIT's Media Lab and Eric Horvitz of Microsoft Research explore the excitement, and the anxiety, about artificial intelligence and the way it may change our world.

From the Revolutionaries series at the Computer History Museum in California. In partnership with the BBC World Service. Funding for the Revolutionaries series is made possible in part by the Carsten-Ellis Foundation.