According to the tradition of New Ethics - a short news brief that proves that the proposed topic really exists and is being discussed right now. Robots are beaten and humiliated by scientists, developers, bystanders, sexually preoccupied citizens and ordinary alcoholics. The future has arrived.
Made to Suffer
The whole world is watching people bullied by robots in Boston Dynamics. They are beaten with sticks, dropped to the ground and not allowed to rise. The poor fellows cannot answer - the Internet does it for robots. Not so long ago, the founder and CEO of the company, Mark Reibert, gave a lecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he explained why and for what machines must suffer.
It turned out that Rybert's team deliberately does not protect their inventions. “Each of our cars is designed to be broken,” he explained during his speech. The company's principle is "build, break, fix". Thanks to endless violence against mechanisms, each subsequent model gets better.
It also emerged that the CEO of Boston Dynamics knows their team has earned a reputation for torture. And he even likes it. However, now scientists are trying not to beat robots on camera, and there are significantly fewer dislikes under their videos on YouTube.
Punched robot scientist head
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In September last year in Moscow, a man attacked the robot Alantim, a development of MIT University, and smashed its head. The moment of the attack was captured on video, which, however, resembles a production.
First, an angry man kicks the robot. Then he takes a baseball bat and smashes pieces of plastic from Alantim on the head. In the end - knocks the robot to the ground. The defenseless machine asks: “Help! Help!.
According to the head of the press service of the Moscow Institute of Technology, Alexander Kovalenko, on the streets of the city, the robot analyzed the road surface, checked whether the markings and road signs were clearly visible, and also observed the behavior of the drivers. After the incident, he went to repair.
The suffering of the postman robot
A drunk 54-year-old Estonian man beat up Starship Technologies' mail robot while delivering a package in Tallinn. The man kicked him several times and tried to turn him over. The robot sent an alarm to its creators, who called the police. The law enforcement officers who arrived at the scene detained the attacker before he managed to inflict significant damage on the robot.
Dangerous Security Robot Service
A man beat a robot guarding a parking lot in California. An unarmed vehicle was making a detour when it was attacked by a drunk 41-year-old Jason Sylvain. The Model K-5 is not programmed to defend itself, but is capable of reporting suspicious behavior. The robot reported where needed - and the aggressor was detained. Silvine had no reason to attack: it probably seemed to him that the robot "looked askance at him."
In early May, passengers and women policing the New York airport complained about K-5's behavior. According to the worried women, the robot scares them by sneaking up and examines them "lustfully". “He gets in the way of people. This is a pain in the ass,”said the airport worker.
The difficult fate of a sex robot
Visitors to an electronics festival in Austria molested sex robot Samantha. Her chest was injured, two fingers were broken, and her body was smeared with mud.
Samantha is equipped with artificial intelligence (AI) and is programmed to get aroused while flirting. Its creator, Sergi Santos, criticized visitors who "didn't have to pay and therefore behaved like a barbaric." Despite the damage, the robot's artificial intelligence continued to operate normally. To the question "How do you feel?" Samantha replied, "I'm fine."
British engineer Arran Lee Squire, who helped develop the robot, believes Samantha should be treated differently. “She's not a sex doll. She's an AI robot,”Squire reminded. This incident provoked another round of discussion about the rights of sex robots and their potential impact on society.
There will be enough work for everyone except the Russians
Robots won't take over the job market for the foreseeable future. This is stated in a recent study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The new data significantly corrects the famous Oxford University report from 2013. At the time, scientists reported that about 47% of professions in the United States could soon be automated.
On closer examination of the issue, it became clear that only 14% of professions have a high (over 70%) probability of automation, which means that they will do without a person. If the forecast is correct, 66 million people will lose their jobs. Most of them are low-skilled workers and students.
In Russia, according to forecasts, the job is worse. Every second citizen of our country faces unemployment as a result of production modernization. According to RANEPA estimates, in the case of "one-step" automation, 49.3% of Russians will have to quit their jobs, that is, about 42.13 million people. Stepan Zemtsov, senior employee of the laboratory for researching corporate strategies and behavior of firms at the RANEPA, clarifies that the reason for the coming unemployment is not so much the introduction of robots, but the impossibility of retraining citizens and creating new jobs for them.
Irreplaceable deputies
Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matvienko is sure that robots cannot be engaged in lawmaking and therefore cannot replace deputies.
She acknowledged that new digital tools are really helping legislators. However, according to her, robots are not capable of performing tasks, for the solution of which it is necessary "not only to know the problems, but also to feel the mood of people."
Robots cope with the routine, but they are not capable of more, Matvienko is sure. “[Goal-setting, semantic content, creativity] - all this is required in politics, public administration, including in the legislative sphere. The law must be fair and humane, and these concepts do not fit into the program code, "- said the speaker of the Federation Council.
A funeral for mechanical friends
At the Buddhist temple of Kofukuji in Japan, monks held a funeral service for more than one hundred Sony Aibo robot dogs. The owners of artificial animals are sure that toys have a soul - so they sing the funeral service for broken robots in all customs. After the ceremony, the "deceased" dogs became donors of spare parts for their brothers.
Dmitry Levin