After the robot apocalypse, what else could go wrong?
PRI's The World Science
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Science fiction writer Daniel H. Wilson likes to see human-robot relations go horribly wrong. In his first book, Robopocalypse, which was a New York Times best-seller — and might be made into a movie directed by Steven Spielberg — self-driving cars turn against their passengers, domestic robots murder their masters, and a self-aware intelligence named Archos tries to wipe out humanity. Now, in his new book, Robogenesis, Wilson asks what happens after the inevitable robot rebellion. “In Robopocalypse, there are a lot of different types of robots. There are exoskeletons and spider tanks and I had a lot of fun exploring all those different physical incarnations,” Wilson says. “In Robogenesis, I went back to how machines think: ‘What would they want? How would you survive in a world with these titanic intellects out there with their own motivations?’” Wilson says he is always on the lookout for what he calls “nightmare fuel.” The robots being created today are designed with neither the cap