How happy will it be when camera data in the age of hyper realistic cgi films and “foolproof” telemetry will protect us from killing robot car makers at court. :)
This is what I fear is going to happen once surveillance-type robots start appearing in the streets. The narrative is that we'd somehow destroy them on sight but the truth is that that would criminally persecuted.
In the event that robots eventually enslave the entire race, I doubt there will be any video record. It'll all be on youtube, owned by — guess who — the machines.
Industrial use will certainly happen. Personal use not so much though. By the time robots are feasible you'd be crazy to have one in your home. Like all new tech these days robots will be leveraged against you at every opportunity. They'll be constantly recording audio and video and reporting the events and contents of your household to companies and to the state.
Maybe the legal changes will happen eventually to prevent that, but I expect Americans will have general purpose robots long before our laws do anything meaningful about surveillance capitalism and the erosion of our Fourth Amendment rights
Holy cow, the robots are definitely coming. We really are at the ground floor of a technology that is going to change humanity, I am certain of that. Changes greater than any changes we've seen before.
Still, we need to get to the point where we actually have sex robots, because before that happens, the more dire (if less exciting) threats are hacked self-driving cars, hacked drones, and hacked credit bureaus.
The robots will just become drones (remotely controlled by humans). BD demos are great to show that these will be autonomously ambulatory (you just tell them which direction to move, they manage the low-level concerns of the movement).
We won't trust AI with decision-making, but we will trust the status-quo police forces to dish out violence from the safety of an office.
Interesting that the article focuses on the unintentional killing of people by robots. That is unfortunate and worth writing about, but society is good at proportional reaction to things like that. The more disasters there are, the more we'll take it seriously, and the more lawsuits & regulation that will follow.
See: self-driving cars.
The more challenging topic is military/government use of robots in war or citizen control scenarios. Areas like that seem very relevant if you look forward a few decades given the pace of progress of Boston Robotics and AI.
See: Terminator, the movie. Time travel aside... :P
Not to sound paranoid or anything but are we (USA, Western world) really going to allow motorized robots (with cameras and sensors) by the thousands to be let loose in the US all beaming data and controlled from China?
> Will robots patrol the streets and keep you safe from crime? Will they prosecute people who hurt others, or preside over those trials to make sure everyone's rights are protected?
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