Following the terrible news that a worker was killed at a VW plant, In typical fashion, the UK media focused on short-term gains via attention grabbing headlines without recognising the potential long-term damage such tactics create.
With headlines including “Robot kills factory worker after picking him up and crushing him…” (Daily Mail), “Robot kills worker at Volkswagen Plant in Germany” (The Guardian), and “Worker killed by robot at Volkswagen car factory” (The Independent), the majority of the British press decided to afford the machine in question with sentient thought and apparently,…
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