If there's one thing I'm afraid of, it's the fact that robots are written to expect human input and respond to that input, but in practice, robots also unknowin

If there's one thing I'm afraid of, it's the fact that robots are written to expect human input and respond to that input, but in practice, robots also unknowingly receive robot input, which results in weird, unexpected things happening. One example is high-frequency trading robots in the stock market, where one trade (or bug) could set off stuff like flash crashes (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/09/business/09flash.html http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/09/business/09flash.html)