The Threats of Robots to Human in 2050

From 9th to 15th on March in 2016, there was Baduk game that is like chess; Lee Sel-dol who is the best player in South Korea had to match with AlphaGo that AI has knowledge how to play Baduk by DeepMind Technologies Limited of Google (Somers, 2018). The result is AI won four games out of the five games. It means the robot (AI) already surpasses the human’s brain in other areas such as medicine or law judge as well as Baduk. It is a good situation for robots to replace things that people do not work correctly. Also, robots can replace dangerous things such as a firefighter for human to do. Despite using the robot has many advantages, there is a number of threats to the robot for humans such as occupation, ethics, and future which is controlled by robots in 2050.

The first of all threats, it is happening to that people have been substituted by machines. In the ‘Rise of the Robots’ book, the author Ford claims that “Big data is having a revolutionary impact in a wide range of areas including business, politics, medicine, and nearly every field of natural and social science” (Ford, 2015). The background of this sentence is a Quil technology, that is built a far more powerful and comprehensive AI engine by combining with original StatsMonkey computer (it was also a supercomputer). He says the Quil technology also includes various big data such as college-educated knowledge and professional skills in many areas. For example, Google’s servers alone handle about 24 petabytes that probably are millions of information (big data) in every day and each time. After all, working in WCJ as well as simple labor (BCJ) can be replaced by robots, because the brain and information of robots already surpass humans. People must select from reduced occupations like an author, or making a new machine in the future. The report ‘13 Disappearing Jobs That Won’t Exist in 2030’ (Phillpott, 2017) mentions, that such jobs include travel agent, cashiers, librarians, postal couriers, bank tellers, textile workers, the print industry, sports referees and umpires, pilots, taxi drivers, lumberjacks, telemarketers and fisherman (it is called BCJ) need just formal training and highly skilled occupation without a degree. In other words, anyone can work in BCJ any filed, if they have apprenticeships, but they will be able to do the job that they really want because of the robot. Even though a person born with a talent has rights to use his talent, he cannot conduct challenges needed his talent by being lost jobs by the robots. Therefore, disappearing jobs in the world is a kind of threats from robots for humans.

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There is another source threat of the robot about occupations. According to ‘21 Lessons for the 21st century’ Harari writes that “the better we understand the biochemical mechanisms that underpin human emotions, desires, and choices, the better computers can become in analyzing human behavior, predicting human decisions, and replacing human drivers, bankers, and lawyers” (Harari, 2018). It means that AI is not just about computers getting faster and smarter, namely that AI can sufficiently outperform humans. The robot people know general is that it works in only BCJ instead of people as BCJ demands just repeated skills and manual labor. On the other hand, WCJ requires corporate professionals with highly skills (non-manual labor) with an advanced degree (higher education.) For example, many people say that a doctor is a job that only people can do. However, Harari says: “AI doctors could provide far better and cheaper healthcare for billions of people, particularly for those who currently receive healthcare at all” (Harari, 2018). It represents AI doctor will be better than human doctors because they may have some mistake because of their emotion which sometimes they can be nervous or tired during surgery. After all, the number of human doctors will decrease as time passes because patients want to be treated by robots. In addition, AI already starts to understand human’s emotion, and behavior which is only human beings, that is to say, there is no limit to the development of AI. People will be lost by robots no matter what kind of jobs. As Stephen Hawking states, “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race” (Hawking, 2014). It will be come to the future world which people cannot do anything without robots by being substituted all of jobs by AI.

The second threat of robots is that robots mess up human’s ethics. Nowadays, the problem about the ethics of a robot, which has brain and emotion like humans, will be raised up as the robot is getting more and more developed like a human, and as a standard of the robots’ ethics is ambiguous. Before learning about the robot ethics, people need to know what the big different points are between the robot and human. In the book ‘Robot ethics: The Ethical and Social Implications of Robotics’, the author Abney writes: “The deliberation system involves our ability to structure alternative possible futures as mental representations, and then to choose our actions based on which representation we wish to become our experienced reality” (Abney, 2014). The deliberation system expresses the cognitive decision-making which a background of the word is the ancestral instinctual emotional decision- making system. Humans solve problems through their own experiences, information, and emotion whereas, robots just decide it according to the information people entered. Another point is he says: “Morality is asserted to be about the character of persons, not the rightness or wrongness of individual acts” (Abney, 2014). Moral ethics, which is divided into various forms from ethics, determines human personality and life. Virtue ethic asked who the subjects of life that can be accountable for his action or choice was. It is possible to hear answers from the question only to humans and particle animals like a chimpanzee, that is, robots are impossible to think themselves. Even though the robot has smart brain which is better than a human’s brain, it does not have the deliberation system and virtue ethic unlike a human. Therefore, people need to accurately know differences between humans and robots in order to decide standard of the robot ethics. As Albert Camus says, “A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world” (Caumus, 1913-1960). It explains what humans without ethics are in the world. What humans think or have ethics is an essential factor during lifetime with others.

The threat of robots about ethics indicates what the standard of beyond humans or humanoid is. Beyond humans or after humans (it is from posthumanism) means that they overcome the limitations which are physical and mental abilities from normal humans. Also, humanoid has an appearance and thoughts (knowledge) like a human. These (beyond humans and humanoid) spoil the standard of humans. So, bioconservatism that combines ‘biology’ and ‘conservatism’ oppose that these were created. According to Journal of Ethics Education Studies, the author Chu writes, “Bioconservatism as a position in the ethical debate on human enhancement takes two main claims. One is a moral claim that human enhancement may disregard or violate something intrinsically valuable about human nature. The other is a political claim that human enhancement should be banned or severely restricted” (Chu, 2015). In order to understand, it is important to knowing some words meaning. The human nature is a personal character, including ways of actions, thinking, and feeling which is natural, that is, they claim human nature is the rights to have equal without developing physical and mental abilities. If it really would happen human enhancement, people will have become smarter, faster, and strength athletes as natural selection like treefrogs but, human enhancement is a little different situation. Because natural selection is to adapt or survive to an environment, human enhancement can be called artificial selection. Despite this situation is good for someone, it coincides to discrimination and even war because humans will be not equal. Eventually, human enhancement causes moral and political as well as the ethics problem. As someone has the desire which is they want to an unusual person than others, something intrinsically valuable about human nature gets into a mess.

At the end, people can be dominated by robots in 2050 because AI is much better the brain and physical than humans. Also, many people are addicted to the robot such as a smartphone, and a computer. There are a lot of movies to let threats of the robot know. Of that, the movie ‘I, Robot’ is old and famous. This story says how will happen to the world if the murder robot is created and it does not receive orders of people at the same time. In the movie, robots have entered three principles into their brain- first, a robot shouldn’t a disservice to people, second a robot must follow human’s orders, third a robot can protect for oneself. Most citizens believe in three principles and live with robots but, only hero (Will Smith) does not trust it as he has had a terrible accident by the robot. Through the murder case that the robot expert he knows is dead, he realizes two kinds of the robot. One robot can feel the emotion and have empathy from humans. Another robot (VIKI) which manages electricity, transform, and other robots etc. wants to dominate the world in order to protect people. VIKI have understood new comprehension about a human-sometimes because humans think their own feeling more than rationality, so they are a weak organism. After all, VIKI keeps a tight rein on freedom of the human and the hero restrains this situation with one robot that has empathy. However, if robots start to rise in revolt, people are completely defeated by them in the real world. Because a robot is designed to protect humans, it has more power than people. As Bill Gates says: “Humans should be worried about the threat posed by artificial intelligence” (Gates, 2015). It means, people always should be careful robots to be not dominated by AI. Humans want to live more comfortable world using the robot but, they have to know it is a double-edged sword.

Conclusion

The purpose of present research essay is to inform threats of a robot for humans in 2050 or the far future. Sometimes the robot can become a devil to people, although it has a lot of benefits such as replacing dangerous jobs instead of people or having a comfortable life. Any objects have benefits and weaknesses at the same time. In 2050, as a technical improvement that is to create AI will develop more and more, people have been substituted by robots in all occupations. Also, after human or humanoid will be cause discrimination and even war in order to not equal each other. AI has a very great brain and physical to a fault, so, people can be under the control of robots, when it starts thinking oneself. Therefore, humans always must be careful and know method about how people can control robots without any threats.

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