On the futuristic cover of a sci-fi magazine

Was the picture from a story set in 2017:

A giant robot killing everyone that wasn’t good

And the people all were running as he trashed their neighborhood.

Well, I was just a young boy when I stumbled on that scene

Of the crazy science fiction world of 2017;

But now it’s here, yet human beings continue being bad

And the way that things are going I fear the robot’s getting mad.