Fear of robots, threat of robots

Some people are a bit afraid of robots, in several different ways. It's hard to see which way is the most typical fear, but I honestly do hope it's not the common "Oh no the robots will kill us all", which is somewhat understandable as we've had movies in which robots are trying to kill all humankind.

Lucky, many of these movies are really good, like:

1. Terminator 2

Can't come up with anything else, though. I'm not typically a huge movie fan.

I see that we have four different kinds of fears of robots.

• Robots will kill the human race
• Robots will kill me
• Robots will steal my job
• Robots will make us lazy

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I'm going to skip that robots will kill the human race, because as long as there is no "true" AI, that's not a risk unless if someone builds a robot programmed only to kill the human race. I can't imagine that kind of robot would be impossible to stop either.

The second fear, "Robots will kill me", is more likely though, but this is more about bad robot design and poor decisions. Robots are cold hearted, merciless machines. Pretty much literally, even though they don't have a heart. All you need is to stand in the wrong place at the wrong time and BAM! A robot whacks you in the head.

Just for everybody to understand, robots are not only human like machines, but industrial robots are common and they typically have enough power to crush a human who happend to stand in their way. This is why we need both factory planning and education to personnel, as all safety measures can be outdone by human stupidity. Even with regular machines, people have died when they have bypassed safety to get something done "the easier way". I can imagine same thing happening with robots "Just keep the robot on, I'll just keep low so I won't get hit".

If anyone has seen industrial robots at work, you know they are typically fast. Really fast. In worst case, you'll have enough time to think "Is it going to hit me" before it bashes your head to pulp. BAM!

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Same thing with big animals too. Horses are scary. SCARY

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Robots stealing a job is also a pretty good fear. Depending on what you are doing for living and what kind of social security system you have to keep you up, it might be a really nice thing or a bad thing. In the past, new technologies in farming took away big bunch of jobs from agriculture but not most of us are feeling very bad for it.

I wouldn't want great amounts of us to work on the fields to get people fed, but we can do more with less people and it's nice. If you want to farm by hand and feed yourself that way, you can do that. Please.

I'm having a 100 square meter farming plot in the town I live in and it's a nice hobby, so no bad about farming. I'd show you a picture of a potato I've grown but I ate them all. Not the photos but the potatoes. They're delicious when you grow them with love and then deep fry them and put some salt on.

But sure, robots stealing your jobs. I'm hungry, as you can see. In best case scenario, robots do more and more of the work we are currently doing and we have a system, which provides us with our basic needs. Nobody buys robots to produce stuff for free, but neither is there a point when robots are producing stuff and nobody can buy anything as we all are without jobs.

UNLESS this is the secret plan of the super rich elite to create robots to take care of their basic needs and leave us else dying in hunger. I think they should make a movie about this. ;)

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Aaaaaaand the last part can be likely. Robots making us lazy. I just said it might happen that robots will do our jobs and we'll have social security to keep us happy. Has anyone seen Wall-E? I'm not saying we should keep up working for all our life, but.. something to do is what should keep us feeling good.

After I got my car I've just grown fatter. I'm not sure if it's all about the car, but I'm walking and riding a bike far less than before. When I bought a dishwasher I'm spending less time washing the dishes, but I'm not putting the extra time to anything useful. I'm messing around with the computer or my phone more. It should be really good if I would do something more productive, but... it's not interesting, because I don't have to do things so much anymore. Everything mandatory is being taken care of easier and faster, but most useful things I could do aren't mandatory so it's way too easy to skip them.

I'm interested to see what we will be like after 30-50 years after automation is surely at completely different level. Currently, I'm worried, as I think laziness might be in human nature. Preserving energy is natural for animals (like humans), so when all we do is preserving.. shit, we could really make good energy storage system for robots or aliens.
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