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Autonomous vehicles won't just disrupt the jobs of people who sit physically behind the wheel. As truck drivers lose their jobs to automation, there will be less need for people to do truckers' payroll and for retail workers in roadside convenience stores and motels. There'll be less need for people to clean truck stop bathrooms, and lower demand for sex workers in the places truckers frequent today.

A crucial challenge over the coming decades will be helping countries that fall into the grey area between autocracy and democracy make the transition to fully democratic governance. Part of this will depend on careful use of AI to promote openness and transparency while minimising its potential to be abused for authoritarian surveillance or to spread disinformation.

As technology advances, a replicant (as well as those of us who have not died) will have a variety of bodies and types of bodies to choose from.