When the first employee walks into a company’s human resources department to complain about a robot co-worker or overzealous AI scheduling assistant, what exactly is HR supposed to do? 

Maybe refer the worker to “Robot Relations.”

The idea may sound like science fiction, but it is an idea emerging in one form or another during discussions about AI’s impact on jobs, with the intention of getting ahead of a not-to-far-into-the-future workplace problem.

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