The Daily Dose

The struggle to get attention at the annual scrum that is SXSW can lead to people take desperate measures. Unfortunately, that sometimes means flat-out lying to reporters. The picture above is of a ‘Stop the Robots’ demonstration that I stumbled upon in Austin city center last weekend. Capturing the anti-AI sentiment expressed by prominent names like Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk, they chanted “AI, say goodbye – they say robots, we say no bots.” I didn’t quite think it was worth writing about on TNW but I witnessed the leader of the protesters being interviewed by USA Today, and a number…

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