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Of course, any author of science-fiction warned about robots rebelling against their creators, right now LLMs have zero memory but it seems impossible to prevent a random engineer in h·er·is basement to create a rogue a.i., good luck to us
It’d change a lot about class conflict, perhaps even end the need for it.
Also i don’t see why you’re hesitating, they’re already replacing jobs since the industrial revolution, my grandfather has been using a mowing robot for years now, my parents use one to clean the floor and to clean their swimming pool, as well as to monitor their house. It won’t take many years before getting one to clean the windows as well.
Amazon has deployed its one millionth robot last year, they move shelves, sort parcels, bring products to humans operate forklifts, …
You probably already heard about China’s “dark factories”, which doesn’t even need any human assistance or supervision.
Robots are already replacing taxi&truck drivers. In agriculture as well they’re beginning to drive tractors, and are already milking cows, and are more&more distributing animal feed, cleaning some livestock buildings, spraying crops, destroying weeds(, with lasers), …
They’re also involved in mining, digging trenches autonomously, etc. It’s in China that the world’s first fully unmanned paving construction was built two years ago, an highway of more than 150km !
There are also automative toll booth, welding robots, …
If you were more specifically thinking of these multi-tasking androids depicted in sci-fi movies, that could just as well drive a car, mine, build a structure, or wash your dishes, then my opinion is that their humanoid precursors will be as numerous before 2035 as the current number of robotaxis, and be more widespread in 2050, including in homes.
On humanoid androids :
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It won’t end class conflict. That is not have capitalism works unfortunately.
Exploiting human workers is much more problematic than exploiting robots. In a post-scarcity society everyone would have access to healthcare, food, housing, energy, and any goods and services.
Robots will make robots, and raw materials will be automatically mined until taken from asteroids.
I just wanted to point out that in such era of abundance where costs are reduced to almost nothing, and wages aren’t necessary for survival anymore, then why would we revolt against a non-existent oppression/exploitation, where would the capitalist theft be ?
However i agree that ideally these robots should be collectively owned, or equally alloted so that individuals loan them to companies, with a public control ensuring that the equilibrium is maintained.
There should also be a prevention over the influence of the wealthy in politics otherwise they’ll find out to have more at the detriment of everyone else in their selfish race to be the number one(, e.g. artificial scarcity, planned obsolescence, oligopolies, influence in politics, …)
I guess what i meant was to point at an almost complete elimination of the material basis of class exploitation.
However i agree with you that we’ll still need political institutions protecting us from the selfishness of the wealthy, otherwise they’ll find new forms of domination to increase their power at our detriment.