We need to make robots more like humans, so that we can be humans again
With the continuous improvements in AI, more and more jobs are at risk. In particular, it is repetitive low-skilled and semi-skilled jobs that are at risk. If you’ve seen videos recorded inside the Tesla factory, you would see large assembly robots putting together their coveted cars.
More unemployment? Bad news.
Social unrest from unemployment? Even more bad news.
But the silver lining from this would be, eventually, robots would take up most of the repetitive jobs that currently humans do.
A welder for Ford Motors would stand in the same exact spot for eight hours every day, presses the same button on his welding gun 384 times in a day. There is no creativity nor free will taking place. The psychological exhaustion is damaging to the spiritual being.
Once robots fully replace these jobs, what will exactly happen, I won’t try to prophesize.
What is definite is that the work that humans will be doing will change. We will either occupy ourselves with other jobs that require more human interactions or we’ll have more free time to explore our human lives.
We have currently in place an economic system that considers free time purely as a ‘failure’ of utilising labour rather than an opportunity for humans to improve through self-development or other types of collaborative progress.
