How to survive A.I apocalypse? Wait and sea!

IF you want to survive an onslaught of Al-powered robots, live by the sea.

- BY ANDY GILPIN in San Francisco

That's the advice from Amazon robotics boffin Aaron Parness, who knows how close we are to being enslaved by mechanical overlords.

He’s just developed a robot that can feel - well, touch - and he has some good news... The Terminator isn't coming for us any time soon.

Aaron told us: “I think people who work in robotics know how clumsy they still are and how far away we are from those kinds of sci-fi scenarios of taking over the world.

“It won't happen in my lifetime, that's for sure. I think there's a lot of overblown concern about Terminator-style scenarios.

“The optimist in me believes that it will never happen because the people who are designing robots want them to be useful.

"Enslaving the human race isn’t useful and the people in charge will have an early signal on stopping that.”

And he has a simple tip if you want to survive any impending AI-powered robot apocalypse – move to the seaside.

Aaron explained: “If I'm having fun, the answer I would say as to why it won't happen is like, saltwater.

“I'll just throw a little bit of that at them – robots hate saltwater. And stairs.”