| Currently there are robotics competitions going on | | | | U.S. Automaker manufacturing facilities currently use |
| across America and almost every single major | | | | robotics to build cars. All or most all car washes in the |
| university as a robotics program along with degrees in | | | | United States use robotics and more and more |
| computer sciences, robotics and artificial intelligence. | | | | industries are turning towards robotics and artificial |
| There is no doubt within the next decade that the field | | | | intelligence systems to run things, rather than people. |
| of artificial intelligence and robotic androids will come of | | | | This is great for shareholders equity and quarterly |
| age. In fact currently artificial intelligence designers are | | | | profits, yet anyone who has been downsized due to |
| trying to make business decision computers and thus | | | | the robotics efficiency probably has a different |
| your future boss could be an android. That is to say if | | | | perspective on this issue. Will the human race become |
| you do not lose your job first to a robotic system in | | | | slaves to robotic systems? We all know that in every |
| manufacturing. | | | | civilization there is a point when government gets so |
| Academia has assured us that we will not have to | | | | large and has so much control that no longer needs to |
| worry about robots taking over the world in causing | | | | people at once served. Who is to say that |
| Armageddon, but how can we be so sure? After all, | | | | government will not employ robots to cut costs and |
| right now they're only experimenting and building | | | | save taxpayers money? At that point the robots will |
| prototypes. Right now all we see is unmanned aerial | | | | be running us and what if they decided we are no |
| vehicles in the military, robotics lawnmowers and those | | | | longer needed. Will it matter then if academia promised |
| little nifty robotic vacuum cleaners you can buy for | | | | us that their artificial intelligent robotic research would |
| your home. But in the future we will have robotic | | | | not harm us? I dare to ask this question even though I |
| artificial intelligence armies, with no people. Half of the | | | | am very pro robotics. Consider this in 2006. |