When I read this question, I automatically got an image of Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator! The point being is because I thought of how he was starting as a robot in that film. This moving piece of metal appeared to have more brains than a human! Watching this film made me come to the realization that I’m the next upcoming years, these things can possibly take over the world. Here why it can cause threats towards society.
A NYTimes article titled, “Should Your Drivesless Car Hit a Pedestrian to Save Your Life” by John Markoff, it states, “If its machine brain has to choose between slamming into a wall or running someone over, well, sorry pedestrian”. I thought about Will Smith in Men in Black after reading this article and about how he had no type of control of the flying vehicle while he and Tommy Lee Jones were in it. He couldn’t put his seatbelt on, let alone sit down in his seat. Although Tommy warned him to put his seatbelt on before he took off, it shows me how “aggressive” technology can be. It’s like as if their flying car had a mind of its own; it’s like Timmy didn’t even need to drive the vehicle.
“Within several decades, machines will exhibit the full range of human intellect, emotions, and skills, ranging from musical and other creative aptitude to physical movements” (The Coming Merging of Mind and Machine, Ray Kurzweil). I personally don’t like the whole idea of cyber objects coming into play. Sure, they can have some good to them, but, they can eventually turn deadly. Take, for example, the movie “I, Robot”, also starring Will Smith. The robots in that movie appeared to be nice and helpful in society, but something trigger something off in them, which turned them into these harmful machines. They all had to be reset in order for them to be properly functioning again. I don’t know about everyone else, but the whole idea of having someone’s emotions turned on and off just with a click of a button.
In an article titled, “Alternative Essence of Intelligence”,it states, “Humans are not born with complete reasoning systems, complete motor systems, or complete sensory systems”. I’ll agree with this statement, however pay attention to one thing: It states, “humans are born with”, not “humans and robots are born with”. Humans are born and robots are made, which is why I feel there should be no debate as to whether or not technology should advance into these objects.
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