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posted by mrpg on Friday October 06 2017, @03:46AM   Printer-friendly
from the I-robot-you-slave dept.

Silicon Valley celebrates artificial intelligence and robotics as fields that have the power to improve people's lives, through inventions like driverless cars and robot carers for the elderly.

That message isn't getting through to the rest of the country, where more than 70% of Americans express wariness or concern about a world where machines perform many of the tasks done by humans, according to Pew Research.

The findings have wide-reaching implications for technology companies working in these fields and indicates the need for greater public hand-holding.

"Ordinary Americans are very wary and concerned about the growing trend in automation and place a lot of value in human decision-making," said Aaron Smith, the author of the research, which surveyed more than 4,000 US adults. "They are not incredibly excited about machines taking over those responsibilities."

Once robots are perfected the 99% can be eliminated so they stop bumming the 1% out.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 06 2017, @02:17PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 06 2017, @02:17PM (#578010)
    I believe your ideas for ideal human society were spelled out in a novel called The Time Machine, but replacing the cannibalistic Morlocks with robots. The question then is: is becoming Eloi really all we ultimately want for ourselves as a species?
  • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Friday October 06 2017, @02:57PM

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Friday October 06 2017, @02:57PM (#578039)

    Sure, why not?

    Besides, if you replace the cannibalistic Morlocks with robots, then you eliminate the cannibalism problem, and the Eloi are free to live lives of bliss without any worry at all.

    I really don't see the problem here.

    Seriously: why would you want a life where you still have to spend your time on drudge-work and back-breaking labor? The only thing I can think of is that this attitude comes from Protestantism that's been ingrained into much of Western society for so long. There's no rationality to it at all. Robots won't be able to replace our ability to be creative, so we'll always have that IMO. How much great music, art, film, etc. are we missing out on because too many potential artists are wasting their lives sitting in cubicles, and also because we don't have time to enjoy as much art because we're all wasting our time sitting in cubicles?