ROBOT QUOTES VI

quotations about robots

Until we figure out how to fairly distribute the fruits of robot labor, it will be an era of mass joblessness and mass poverty.

KEVIN DRUM

"You Will Lose Your Job to a Robot--and Sooner Than You Think", Mother Jones, November/December 2017


Right now the major challenge for even thinking about how robots might be able to understand moral norms is that we don't understand on the human side how humans represent and reason if possible with moral norms.

MATTHIAS SCHEUTZ

"How to Build a Moral Robot", Spectrum, May 31, 2016


There are two big threats posed by an automated future. The first -- that we will irritate the robots and they will dominate and swiftly obliterate us -- is for Hollywood to worry about. There is not much apparatus we can build in advance to make ourselves less annoying. There will undoubtedly be those who believe our obliteration is so inevitable that every other anxiety is a sideshow. If you can hold your nerve against that, the critical question becomes: in a world without work, how do we distribute resources? It is a question articulated precisely by Stephen Hawking last year, when he noted: "Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution."

ZOE WILLIAMS

"If robots are the future of work, where do humans fit in?", The Guardian, May 24, 2016


If you don't want a generation of robots, fund the arts!

CATH CROWLEY

Graffiti Moon


Accepting that one day your role might be handled by a robot is a hard pill to swallow. But if we can learn anything from history, it's that when machines take over workers must learn to adapt, and create new roles for themselves.

THOMAS SHAMBLER

"Robots are coming! How to stay relevant in an automated world", Arabian Business, May 31, 2016


If you want to look at this through a utopian lens, the AI Revolution has the potential to free humanity forever from drudgery. In the best-case scenario, a combination of intelligent robots and green energy will provide everyone on Earth with everything they need. But just as the Industrial Revolution caused a lot of short-term pain, so will intelligent robots. While we're on the road to our Star Trek future, but before we finally get there, the rich are going to get richer--because they own the robots--and the rest of us are going to get poorer because we'll be out of jobs.

KEVIN DRUM

"You Will Lose Your Job to a Robot--and Sooner Than You Think", Mother Jones, November/December 2017


What separates us into engineers and robots, puppeteers and puppets, kings and pawns, is not the status we hold at any given time among others -- status is irrelevant; it is the level of ever-present awareness we have of a grey-matter tailor's tools ... of flattery, persuasion, and cunning.

A. J. DARKHOLME

Rise of the Morningstar


Robots building robots. Now that's just stupid.

JEFF VINTAR

I, Robot


Machines smart enough to do anything for us will probably also be able to do anything with us: go to dinner, own property, compete for sexual partners. They might even have passionate opinions about politics or, like the robots on Battlestar Galactica, even religious beliefs. Some have worried about robot rebellions, but with so many tort lawyers around to apply the brakes, the bigger question is this: Will humanoid machines enrich our social lives, or will they be a new kind of television, destroying our relationships with real humans?

FRED HAPGOOD

Discover Magazine, June 2008

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If you look at the robotic devices that are coming into the restaurant industry -- it's cheaper to buy a $35,000 robotic arm than it is to hire an employee who's inefficient making $15 an hour bagging French fries -- it's nonsense and it's very destructive and it's inflationary and it's going to cause a job loss across this country like you're not going to believe.

ED RENSI

interview, Mornings with Maria, June 2016


Next to robots, humans are pretty stupid. Stupid in the sense that they can't hold the vast quantities of data that their machine counterparts can. So when it comes to humans and robots working together, there's a clear mismatch in abilities.

HUGH LANGLEY

"Robots are learning to deal with human stupidity", TechRadar, February 18, 2016


Serafina was late for dinner because her emotional robots had been having a nervous breakdown.

CHARLIE JANE ANDERS

All the Birds in the Sky


If the robot can recognize the clean flame of life
in men who have never fallen from life
then he repents, and his will breaks, and a great love of life
brings him to his knees, in homage and pure passion of service.
Then he receives the kiss of reconciliation
and ceases to be a robot, and becomes a servant of life.

D. H. LAWRENCE

"Real Democracy", The Complete Poems

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