Our New Robot Overlords
Our New Robot Overlords In the last years of the Clinton administration, the CIA was grappling with a seemingly intractable problem. There was a terrorist hiding out in Afghanistan. A religious fanatic by the name of Osama bin Laden, he’d secured a name for himself by pulling together a franchise of terrorist organisations under one ‘brand’, known as Al-Qaeda. Bin Laden had approved and organised a number of attacks against symbols of American influence abroad, bombing the USS Cole and the US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. President Bill Clinton wanted this man neutralised. Hav...