Nigeria, Jan. 28 -- In June 2024, and in the Gumi City Council of South Korea, a service robot-or Robot Supervisor-was alleged to have committed "suicide." This event is just one of the many bizarre and chilling incidences that herald the consequences of the unraveling of artificial intelligence and robotics in contemporary human affairs. In the same South Korea in November 2023, another robot deployed in a vegetable plant fatally crushed a man to death because it could not differentiate between the man and the boxes of vegetables. Some seven years earlier, in 2017, Sophia-the first humanoid robot-became the first robot citizen of Saudi Arabia and an innovation ambassador for the United Nations Development Program. All over the world, an...