The Robot and the Burglar

A short story about free will

James Banta
Lit Up
Published in
3 min readJan 25, 2019

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Often, when the family would leave for short vacations, they would leave the house in charge of the robot whose main duty was to feed and pet the family’s fancy cat.

The robot was a not-too-recent model that, more and more, did basic household duties as the family bought newer, more specialized artificial intelligence machines. When the family…

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James Banta
Lit Up
Writer for

Interested in the past and future while living now. Driven to write by existential angst and fear of missing out. https://medium.com/@jfbanta