🤖 Perils of Living In the Future
Stephanie K. Baer at The San Francisco Standard:
Glasses and dishes had been removed from kitchen cabinets and left elsewhere. The dishwasher, refrigerator, and washing machine were scratched. Dishwasher racks were bent and removed. Wooden furniture was scratched and stained. Bathroom tiles were chipped. A shoe rack and several pairs of shoes were missing from a locked bedroom closet.
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In a lawsuit filed in San Francisco Superior Court Tuesday, Donovan alleges that employees of the Bot Company rented his home “under false pretenses” to conduct prototype testing on robots they’re training to do household chores.
There are several other Airbnb hosts with similar experiences.
No flying cars, but we've got robots who come inside and ruin your stuff. What a timeline.