Posted on 01/03/2016 1:42:36 AM PST by BRK
Red herring. There will always be plenty of jobs with manual skills needed
What if AI takes over the programming?
That's actually more likely. It means I will have to retrain as a plumber.
A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.
Many jobs will remain due to human demand and lack of trust in machines.
The Great Shift Toward Automation and the Future of Employment
http://hubpages.com/business/The-Great-Shift-and-the-Future-of-Employment
Reducing the parasitic job load would probably increase the productive job load.
Well that was a long read and covered all the bases. Computers, nanotechnology, and genetics. I guess the real danger will arrive when the the fields converge into to either Ghost in the Shell, Battlestar Galactica, or both at the same time. I just wanted to make it to retirement, but now I have to live with the knowledge that someday I will die and my children will have to face these horrors alone.
Link: http://www.wired.com/2000/04/joy-2/
If this desire for technology is our nature, then the process is practically unstoppable without crushing force. I did get a sense of anti-capitalism in some of the passages and the belief that all corporations are evil and greedy, while all governmental and scientific organizations are benevolent and selfless. Ha! If that’s the framework from which all future problems will be solved, then we truly are lost.
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