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Robotics Will Advance Our Country (and kill us all)

Robotics Will Advance Our Country (and kill us all). Done by: Chong Hon Yi Shin Ezra Nathaniel. Contents. “Benefits” of robotics Potential problems Job takers! Unreliable robots? Sentient robots?! Possible scenarios ARM-me-gedd-on When robots attack…. “Benefits” of Robotics.

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Robotics Will Advance Our Country (and kill us all)

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  1. Robotics Will Advance Our Country(and kill us all) Done by: Chong Hon Yi Shin Ezra Nathaniel

  2. Contents • “Benefits” of robotics • Potential problems • Job takers! • Unreliable robots? • Sentient robots?! • Possible scenarios • ARM-me-gedd-on • When robots attack…

  3. “Benefits” of Robotics • Far better workers • Do not tire • 20h shifts, anyone? • Far more precise • Can work flawlessly • Can do the most dangerous of jobs • Work in the most unpleasant environments • “Defuse that bomb, boy!”

  4. “Benefits” of Robotics • Do not require health benefits • No insurance • No sick leave • (beyond maintenance, that is) • Will not give you attitude problems • Punctuality • Thou will heed thy every command!

  5. What this means for YOU! Who Me? YES YOU!

  6. Job takers! • More efficient robots take over our jobs • Humans no longer required for menial labour • Construction workers • Factory workers • Will eventually extend to more skilled jobs • Surgeons • Teachers • Question of the day: Who’s going to hire you?

  7. “But I would have retired already!” • Robots are already being used • Automobile industries for welding and painting • Space exploration • With the huge capabilities that robots possess, who can say that they will not replace all our jobs in the near future?

  8. Case Study • In South Korea, some schools have begun using robot teachers • Aim to have a robot in each of the city’s 8400 kindergartens by 2013 • Could threaten the jobs of 20 to 30 thousand foreign teachers.

  9. Job takers! • In South Korea, robots are taking over the service industry • Loss of human interaction

  10. Robots are unreliable • Robots are programmed and made by us, human beings, and as no human is perfect, these robots are subject to human error as well • Robots are unable to react to things they are not programmed to do • The slightest change could cause the robot to malfunction

  11. Sentient Robots?! • At the current rate of technological advancement, sentient robots could be manufactured within the next couple of decades • Will pose ethical issues • Are they considered beings that moralistic standards can be imposed on?

  12. Case Study • In an experiment conducted in Switzerland, robots designed to cooperate in searching out a beneficial resource • Learned to lie to each other in an attempt to hoard the resource

  13. ARM-me-gedd-on-with-killing It’s a simple concept. Anything + Gun = Danger • Anything that has a gun is dangerous. For example: Cute Kitty Cat Dangerous Kitty Cat

  14. ARM-me-gedd-on-with-killing • Robots will be used in wars instead, saving the lives of the soldiers no longer required to fight. • Arms race will occur, as countries compete to build the most technologically-advanced army of deadly super-soldiers. Sure, give the robot a submachine gun, genius. I hope you’re proud. Good luck, have fun.

  15. When robots attack… • Military robots are becoming more and more commonplace • Armed with deadly weapons • And should these human-programmed robots have programming errors, or been affected by a virus… • Is a valid possibility within the last few decades.

  16. When robots attack… • Arms race to get better and stronger military robots • Strong countries that can afford the arms will • Reminiscent of the Cold War

  17. Case Study On 1 June 2007, a Danish man was minding his own business when a robot lawnmower suddenly came crashing onto him. He died. The programmers the robot included an auto-shutoff mechanism to prevent children from interfering with it but could not foresee that the robot would tumble off a slope and kill a man in the process. But who is to blame? The manufacturer? The programmer? The owner of the lawnmower?

  18. Sources • http://www.thinkartificial.org/aesthetics/the-first-human-killed-by-a-robot/ • http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/robot-lawnmower-kills-danish-man-begins-resistance/ • http://populargusts.blogspot.com/2010/02/english-teachers-to-be-wiped-out-by.html

  19. Thank You

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