A group of protesters concerned about the growing influence of artificial intelligence has held a rally at the South by Southwest music and technology festival in Texas.

Concerned that the modern world is leaving itself open to the sort of dystopian downfall that befell us in the Terminator movie series when self-aware robots wage war on humanity, a group called Stop The Robots marched through the streets of Austin, hoping to raise awareness about the dangers of artificial intelligence.

The group says that it likes technology, but is concerned that an increased reliance on artificial intelligence will end up costing us organic organisms our jobs.

As one of the leaders of the group yelled to the crowd during the rally: Who gets pissed off when you call your bank and you cant even get a human? Thats a robots fault.

Stop The Robots is said to be concerned by the way artificial intelligence is already taking over some rolls, most notably in call centres and shops with self-service tills.

Stop The Robots might want to avoid looking Googles list of acquired companies too, with the internet giant having snapped up several start-ups of this nature in the past year or so, including London-based DeepMind for more than 335 million. It calls itself a cutting edge artificial intelligence company, and according to experts has been trying to build a system that thinks.

The group is not alone in its thinking; technology entrepreneur Elon Musk has called AI our biggest existential threat and said their should be regulatory oversight at an international level. Musk is the man behind PayPal, Tesla and SpaceX. He has described his investment in AI research as keeping an eye on whats going on, rather than as business activity looking to return a profit.

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Some people want to 'Stop The Robots'