What should we do when robots take most jobs?
It seems inevitable that robots would take most of our jobs sooner or later.
The solution could be that everyone in the future should be entitled to having a robot (a nonconscious android), which would work for him/her and generate income for its owner, then we could do whatever we want, for example pursue our hobbies (the problem, however, would be for people who have no interest in anything).
But can a nonconscious robot pursue all of our work?
Why has it to be a nonconscious robot?
Because, of course, the problem would arise if we would create a conscious or sentient artificial intelligence - such being could not be treated as a slave (a non paid worker working for us), but would have to be equal to us in rights and obligations. It would be free, as we are, so it could not work for us, it could work only for itself (or himself/herself, as they might be created to have a gender).
Another solution is proposed by Robert Reich, who says that a universal basic income may be the answer:
Human rights for robots have been already debated:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-423856/Robots-rights-say-scientists.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-424075/Human-rights-robots-Its-barking-mad.html
Also sex and marriage with robots:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21271545/
http://www.godandscience.org/doctrine/sex_with_robots.html
http://current.com/items/90974705_why-sex-with-robots-is-always-wrong-the-impending-demise-of-the-human-species.htm
Robot Sex Orgasms May Extend Human Life Span:
Also there have been many films and series on those topics, the most recent ones is Humans (second season starting on 30th October 2016 in the UK):
or its Swedish version Äkta människor aka Real Humans (the original series):
Ex Machina:
This a list of the most well known films/series with intelligent or sentient robots/androids/cyborgs/computers, in no particular order - enjoy:
- Terminator I - V
- Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
- Total Recall 2070
- Äkta människor (Real Humans)
- I, Robot
- Ex Machina
- Bicentennial Man
- Battlestar Galactica
- Tomorrowland
- Almost human
- A.I. Artificial Intelligence
- Blade Runner
- Galaxina
- Alien, Aliens, Alien 3, Alien: Resurrection, Prometheus
- Short Circuit I - II
- Cherry 2000
- Star Wars
- Transformers
- Avengers: Age of Ultron
- Chappie
- Automata
- The Day the Earth Stood Still
- Project Shadowchaser I - IV
- Hot Bot
- Robot Overlords
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- 2010
- The Machine
- Robot and Frank
- Star Trek
- Transcendence
- Dark Matter
- Black Mirror
- Eva (2011)
- Moon (2009)
- Westworld
- The Stepford Wives (1975 and 2004)
- Doctor Who
- Knight Rider
- Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis
- Extant
- Cyborg, Cyborg 2: Glass Shadow, Cyborg 3: The Recycler
- Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
- Lost in Space
- Total Recall (1990)
- Elysium
- Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine
- X-Men: Days of Future Past
- Her (2013)
- Weird Science (1985)
- Metropolis
- The Wizard of Oz
- Forbidden Planet
- RoboGeisha
- Matrix I - III
- D.A.R.Y.L.
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy
- Robocop
- Spaceballs
- Humans
- Demon Seed
- Collosus - The Forbin Project
- Silent Running
- Futureworld
- Ice Pirates
- Battle Beyond the Stars
Animated:
- The Iron Giant
- Chobits
- Robots
- Ghost in the Shell
- I, The Female Robot,
- Beatless - Dystopia,
- Boku no Robot
- Animatrix
Somewhat different movies:
- Surrogates
- Avatar
- Impostor
Other such lists:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_robots_and_androids
https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2015/11/the-100-greatest-movie-robots-of-all-time.html?a=1
http://www.slashfilm.com/25-best-movie-robots/
http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/19030/the-top-50-robots-and-ai-computers-in-the-movies
nice work
"Afraid of robots?
We should be, according to the conventional wisdom. They’re going to take our jobs away.
Maybe there’s another way of looking at it.
Maybe robots should be doing a lot of jobs.
The kinds of jobs that have been created since the Industrial Revolution have liberated us from much of the drudgery of the past, making it conceivable for the first time that people might – for a living! – be ballerinas, full-time musicians, mathematicians, athletes, fashion designers, and much more.
And so with robots. When it comes to jobs that require speed and efficiency, we can’t compete. So maybe we shouldn’t try. Let the robots have those jobs. Someday we may look back and wonder how people ever performed such dehumanizing tasks.
Instead, let’s concentrate on those areas where we excel – tasks that involve relationships, creativity, and human contact. Things that make us human, in other words."
I think he ^ (tom woods) says it best.
Yes, as long as the robots are nonconscious. But when they will be equal or better than us in "relationships, creativity, and human contact" then it would not be that easy. We may become obsolete in the view of the robots we created. :(
they'll just put us in private prisons once they have no need for us. being homeless is becoming a crime in many places.
We're battling bots on this platform! I wonder who will win, the human writers and curators or the bot ones!