In 1920, Czech writer Karel Čapek wrote the play R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots), introducing the word “robot” to the global vocabulary (derived from the Slavic robota – forced labor). The vision of synthetic humans that ultimately rebel and destroy humanity shaped pop-culture anxiety regarding AI for the next century.
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