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Welcome to the robot apocalypse edition of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week.

I'm Felix Salmon of Axios.

I am joined by Emily Peck of Huffpost.

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I am joined by Anna Shramanski of Breaking Views.

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We are going to fight robots on this show.

We are going to find, identify and attack the robots that Erin Burnett was talking about

on CNN during the Democratic debate, and we're going to work out whether they are taking our

jobs. My job, as host of Slate Money, is not going to be replaced by a robot, but yours, if you're

in manufacturing, maybe it will be. We will talk about that. We are going to talk about little baby robots

called e-minis and whether they are being controlled, evilly, by Donald Trump. That's an amazing

story, which is probably absolutely nothing. Spoiler alert. We're going to

talk about the robots that do your taxes and why they are so expensive and why they can't be

free and invisible, because I like the idea of a free invisible robot doing my tax. And I have a

suggestion at the end of that segment for exactly who should be building the free and invisible robot to do our taxes.

And I like my suggestion and I think it should be adopted, Jeff Bezos, if you're listening.

We have a slight plus about D.E. Shaw becoming an activist investor, which is like a very,

D.E. Jor is a robot, basically, but he's becoming an emotional investor, so that's interesting.

We have a packed episode this week, so all of that coming up on Slate Money.

Let's start with robots.

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