Robots may one day rule the world, but what is a robot-ruled Earth like? Many think the first truly smart robots will be brain emulations or EMs. Scan a human brain, then run a model with the same connections on a fast computer, and you have a robot brain, but recognizably human. Train an EM to do some job and copy it a million times: an army of workers is at your disposal. When they can be made cheaply, within perhaps a century, EMs will displace humans in most ...
