Man vs. machine - competition of the future
People are always looking for the easy way to do things. This lead the technology to develop in the way machines will be able to do most work for us. Is this inevitable? How dangerous it may be to us? Does it lead to ethical dilemma?
Let’s imagine the situation: Most commodities are produced using machines without the need of control by human. Machines use artificial intelligence to do their job and get great performance. Only small percent of people go to work where abstract thinking and creativity are required. The question is how the rest of human nation spend their time - lot of time. Probably today’s society isn’t ready for that. The scenario isn’t as bad as in the “Terminator” movie but it leads to global crisis where the best functioning industry is an entertainment and people don’t want to develop.
Who is in danger? Global automation will be tough on those people who prefer comfortable, routine jobs, or who lack the education to tackle challenging new tasks. Some of those people will find work as barbers, truck drivers, hospital orderlies, or waiters. While those jobs will be protected by the fact that they can't be done in a foreign country or by software, wages will be depressed because so many people will be competing for the slots.
Does some kind of limiting the technology help? There is no clear answer but why not to legislate some regulations that allow machines to do only repeatable work. In this case machines never replace humans. Then robots/machines will be only helping us in everyday life.
