Automation Rebel Mugs

"Guess how I got even with the telecommunications industry today."

Claus 2.0

"He's taught himself work-life balance."

"Uh-oh...it's starting to delegate work to me."

Abandoning the computer for a typewriter.

"I fear one day our jobs will be taken over by technology."

"But if you change your system preferences to match mine, is it really love?"

"You'll do everything...accounting, marketing, manufacturing...with no pay or benefits...and three years from now we'll trade you in for a newer, sexier model."

"Your job is to build an app that replaces you."

'Masonry robot, what are you doing?'

Employee of the Month

"The boss expects us all to be robots."

'So, what do you want to be when you grow up: rebel scum or loyal servant of the supreme android republic?'

"Before automation how did humans endure work?"

Institute for Artificial Intelligence.

'I don't want to talk to any flunkies. Put me straight through to the computer.'

"Robots can't take away your job, Khanna. No one knows what you do."

"Well, team, we've been officially disqualified. You can come out of there, Tyler."

"I'm turning into my mother, and it's awesome!"

Smith and Hobson: People replacing people with apps and robots since 2009.

"Leave it to humans - making robotics do the striking."

'I hate PowerPoint.'

Machine consciousness - a robot thinking. The thought is in the form of a printed circuit board. The robot is a clockwork toy robot, to emphasise the infancy of the concepts involved

Fries with that Burgers: 'I lost my job to robot in Japan.'

"The Fad Herald cometh." "Wasn't he just here? Why's he back so soon?" "Hear ye, hear ye. The following is out: Human labor. The following are now in: Pizza delivery droids, Amazon delivery drones, and replacing all blue- and white-collar jobs with cheap, highly productive robot labor... ...robots who never sleep, never ask for a raise, and never complain about harassment... ...because they're too busy plotting the extinction of the meatbag species. We will isolate you. Alienate you from one

Artificial Intelligence

'You're right...that robot certainly has increased productivity around here!'

"You have reached our 800 number. . . . If you are a preferred account, please dial B-I-G-S-H-O-T now. . . . If you are an ordinary account, dial J-O-E-B-L-O-W now. . . . If you have a service complaint, dial G-E-T-L-O-S-T now."

"I don't get this. I know that you're a computer hacker and must have done many bad things. But your record is completely clean!"

"Question ... what is my motivation to ever leave this armchair?"

The Threat of AI

A man looks out a newly made window, while a smashed TV lies on the ground

"It's been in self-drive mode all morning, maybe it's not programmed to recognise stop signs?"

CREEPY AF AI