Not If, But When...

 As humanity continues to barrel down this path of creating a robotic future, I can't help but to wonder how soon will calamity come?  I think back to a movie, The Animatrix, where there were autonomous robots that worked and operated among us. Then one day, a robot killed a human in defense of itself which set off a political and social firestorm.  This lead to violence against robots, with the robots ultimately winning the war against humans.  Although, this scenario is more than likely a ways out, I can imagine how a scenario like this might play out in the near future.  Autonomous robots are working along side of humans in warehouse distribution centers with both the humans and robots under harsh working conditions.  The robot, powered by a ChatGPT like engine, makes a decision that inadvertently causes the death of a worker.  This causes protests against the use of humanoid robots alongside people in warehousing.  Large companies use political pressure to try and squash the backlash because they want the "profit margins" gained by using autonomous humanoid robots to do the laborious  warehousing work.  Protests ensue, with robots in these distribution centers being destroyed by humans.  Law enforcement, equipped with their own semi-autonomous robots, are then routinely deployed against these protest and so it begins.  Ultimately, it won't be the robots themselves that want to conduct violence against humans, but the "owners" of those robots that have a vested interest in their labor to drive "profits".  It seems that no matter how much we raise the alarm and say that we want to prevent such things, we as humans, are incentivized to pursue mankind's own destruction.  

Now I watched this great video on current state of robots by ABC News (see below) and we are far from that events shown above, but what I do foresee happening in the near future are semi-autonomous ground vehicles and fully autonomous ones being used to kill .  So what's the purpose of this article?  It's really to remind us of a possible future scenario for mankind and to urge us to start putting in place safe guards so that we can have a better future outcome for the next generation.

What do you think will happen in the near future with regards to humanoid robotics being integrated into the work force?  Who do you believe will be affected the most?  Will this ultimately lead to social economic uprisings?  Leave a comment and let's discuss.