We chose the
broad topic of Robotics and quickly narrowed it down to artificial
intelligence. Within this topic, we want to pursue the idea of robots becoming
too human-like, and to eventually answer the question surrounded by much
controversy: are we humans making robots too smart for our own good?
In the
introduction, we will discuss a brief history of artificial intelligence in
order to set the scene and give background information. This will lead into our
chosen controversial question, where we will argue that robots are increasingly
able to overtake humans.
We discussed
two key aspects that relate to this issue and will be utilized as pieces of
evidence: how robots are affecting both the individual economic situation and the
social atmosphere. First, we agreed that jobs are becoming overtaken by robots
even today. As the robots are created to be “smarter”, they can perform more
complex tasks and overtake more jobs, leading humans to basically succumb to
them. Secondly, we believe that people are having less children nowadays (we
obviously need statistics to back our claim), making the robot to human ratio
larger and larger. Clearly, if smart robots become the majority, humans are
much more easily overpowered.
Another
important factor is that knowledge is more widely available for the general
population of the world. People become too reliant on this and the level of
laziness increases, making them an easy target for intelligent robots to
empower.
I feel that
we are on the right foot with this research paper, even not everyone was
present at the meeting. Once we begin communicating more, we will be
successfully in completing this paper and presentation.
