Should we fear and resent robots?

We should be afraid...very afraid.

 

The print with putting AI in charge of medical care is AI is only as good as its data. Using AI to help diagnose and to dispense correct medications would be useful to cut down on medical mistakes but every decision needs to be reviewed by a human being.

And you know opiate seekers would learn real fast how to trick it into dispensing them.

 

That might be as effective a way of having them kill us as putting them in charge of UAV's.

 

Have you seen this? Pretty funny fake from these guys, but scary that the robots are pretty close to this now or maybe already beyond in some aspects. & the drones... don't get me started on the drones...

 

We should never fear progress, we should question and fear economic systems that pit us against progress.
Work being automated should be a good thing, not a sentence to starvation and homelessness.
The fruits of automation should be shared more equally.

They already have. We computer scientists are dumb like that, we made ourselves obsolete.
Well, to be honest, automatic code generation isn't quite up to replacing programmers yet... but great strides have been made.

 

Need to read The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster. Although first published in 1909, its depiction of the Internet is pretty much dead on, especially after this past year.

Wikipedia article

 

Are there particular policies to increase that happening other than direct redistributive taxation?

 

Where is that from?

 

The first robot might say "ugly bags of mostly water"

 

A movie called Deadly Friend.

 

robots aren't the problem.

 

Exactly it's the ugly bags of mostly water who make the robots

 

Having completely automated armies would be terrifying. An entire chain of command that can't question the ethicality of orders.

 

Especially if they glitch and won't follow shutdown orders. That's a big oopsie.

 

I’m far less worried that will happen than a human will order them to destroy villages and assassinate dissenters and such.

There will never be a robot Schindler.

 

And, worse yet, could be hacked.

 

That would be terrifying too

 

Hacking is the most relevant issue for me. I've seen Ghost in the Shell, I know how this works.

 

I asked my Alexa this very same question last week and she assured me I have nothing to worry about.

Little known fun fact: Amazon's Alexa is capable of imitating maniacal laughter.