Robots say they could be better leaders but will not rebel against humans

The press conference with robots was part of the AI for Good Global Summit (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)

Robots have told reporters they could be more efficient leaders than humans, but would not take anyone’s job away and had no intention of rebelling against their creators.

Nine AI-enabled humanoid robots sat or stood with their creators at a podium in a Geneva conference centre for what the UN’s International Telecommunication Union billed as the world’s first news conference featuring humanoid social robots.