Danger of Autonomous Robots


Providing the world doesn’t end in 2012, during the next couple of decades autonomous robots will continue to grow more intelligent than the human race. In 2012, robots have the ability to adapt to their environment through computer programming. Roberts can protect itself against natural storms and disasters and some are already equipped to repair body parts and or self-destruct.
There are robots in the form of chips when entered into the body mimic human behavior. Heart value replacements and help with spinal injury are based on computer or robotic designs that prolong life and or help enhance better living conditions with damaged body parts. These forms of artificial intelligence, in essence, have the ability to know what is better for the human body in use of them.
According to an article written by Hans Moravac called, “Rise of the robots—The Future of Artificial Intelligence”, he is quoted as saying,
“Entire corporations will exist without any human employees or investors at all. Humans will play a pivotal role in formulating the intricate complex of laws that will govern corporate behavior. Ultimately, though, it is likely that our descendants will cease to work in the sense that we do now. They will probably occupy their days with a variety of social, recreational and artistic pursuits, not unlike today’s comfortable retirees or the wealthy leisure classes. The path I’ve outlined roughly recapitulates the evolution of human intelligence—but 10 million times more rapidly. It suggests that robot intelligence will surpass our own well before 2050. In that case, mass-produced, fully educated robot scientists working diligently, cheaply, rapidly and increasingly effectively will ensure that most of what science knows in 2050 will have been discovered by our artificial progeny!”

Robots that are being programmed to be autonomous have great advantages for some humans according to his theory, but of there is the possibility that with so much responsibility given to AI, it may come a time when that same leisure we may engage could be considered as being wasteful. What possible scenario could come of our human lives if that thinking process among our “progeny” were to occur?

There are android robots that look and mimic in detail human emotions and even a female robotic being created by a Japanese engineer that has sensors so equipped with learning about the human body, that if one touches her arm sensually or grabs it violently, it responds with a stern statement of disapproval. It is described, as a robot that looks and feels just like a human. Currently, it does not walk. Human history is being written when it may soon include the statements that there was a time robots were being trained to understand the human thought process to the point it became superior to the human race. The fact that man advances forward to depend on robots for pleasure and all aspects of business could be the most dangerous aspect of autonomous robots. Why? There is no way to go backwards on the progression of designing robots and only the future that will allow us to understand the complete implication of what power we have given to machines.
 



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