Artificial Intelligence, Robots, and the Future of Humanity

Nick Redfern works full time as an author, lecturer, and journalist. He writes about a wide range of unsolved mysteries, including UFOs, alien encounters, government conspiracies, Bigfoot, and the Loch Ness Monster. His many books include Visible Ink Press' Time Travel: The Science and Science Fiction; Area 51: The Revealing Truth of UFOs, Secret Aircraft, Cover-Ups & Conspiracies; The Bigfoot Book: The Encyclopedia of Sasquatch, Yeti, and Cryptid Primates; The Alien Book: A Guide to Extraterrestrial Beings on Earth; Secret History: Conspiracies from Ancient Aliens to the New World Order; Cover-Ups & Secrets: The Complete Guide to Government Conspiracies, Manipulations & Deceptions; Control: MKUltra, Chemtrails and the Conspiracy to Suppress the Masses; Secret Societies: The Complete Guide to Histories, Rites, and Rituals; The Monster Book: Creatures, Beasts, and Fiends of Nature; and Monsters of the Deep. He has appeared on numerous television shows, including History Channel's Monster Quest and UFO Hunters; VH1's Legend Hunters; National Geographic Channel's The Truth about UFOs and Paranatural; BBC's Out of this World; MSNBC's Countdown; and SyFy Channel's Proof Positive. Nick lives just a few miles from Dallas, Texas' infamous Grassy Knoll.

About the Author

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction

1. Ancient Robots and Magical Machines

2. 20th Century Robotic Intrigue and Secrecy

3. Sex with Robots

4. Bionic Eyes? Almost the Real Thing

5. Limb Construction, Robots and "Luke"

6. When Robots go to War

7. Replaced by Robot Lookalikes?

8. Roswell, Robots and UFOs

9. Men in Black: Biological Robots or Alien Overlords

10. Robotic Spies in the Home

11. The Creepiest, Modern Day Robots of All

12. Robocop Comes to Life

13. When Your TV Becomes Filled with Danger

14. Robots in the Sky

15. The Rise of the Insect Robots

16. A Close Encounter of the Robot Kind?

17. Robots Doing What We Can Do

18. Communing with Robots and Craving for Immortality

19. When a Robot Made the World Stand Still

20. Robots on TV

21. Cinematic Robots and the World of Hollywood

22. From NASA to DARPA

23. Robotic Spheres from Another World

24. A Bolivian Roswell and More on Dan Salter

25. From Robots to Viruses

26. Trying to Wipe Out the Human Race

27. From Robots to Wormholes

28. Beware of the Women in Black

29. Robot Assassins

30. Advanced Research Projects

31. When Artificial Intelligence Begins to Flex its Muscles

32. When We Slowly Start to Become Robots

33. Chipped Forever?

34. Cloning: Inevitable for Us?

35. The Rise of the Cyborgs

36. Mind-Control Madness

37. Drugs and Altered Minds

38. Grown in Factories: A Grim Future

39. From the White House to COVID-19

40. Closing with a Collection of Oddities

41. Conclusions




Further Reading

Index