You could be forgiven for thinking that the world is currently sliding towards a reality which bares an uncanny resemblance to the Terminator films.
This creeping sense of dread has not been helped by a report out last week by the Reform think-tank, which has urged the Government to replace 250,000 public sector jobs with robots and artificial intelligence.
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