Huw Price is Bertrand Russell professor of philosophy at the University of Cambridge. With Martin Rees and  Jaan Tallinn, he is a co-founder of the project to establish the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. He worries in the NY Times that when we have created machines that are smarter than us then those machines might take over the world. Or more broadly, what happens to us when machines can do everything better than we can?  Also see computer revolution and  income redistribution.