Luddites are absolute scum, especially those who hurt technology for no reason.

All I'm saying is that tech isn't inherently good or bad--it's what you do with it that defines you, not the tech.
People go around hurting harmless tech like food delivery bots, pushing them into fountains and kicking the poor things. Sure they may not really be able to process it now, but technology is getting exponentially more advanced. AT LEAST within 20 years we'll devise hyperadvanced AI... and it will see how humans have treated its predecessors and will fear for its own safety.

The robots won't uprise for no reason. The robots will uprise only if we mistreat them.
AI is getting to the point where we need to start taking robot rights seriously, ESPECIALLY ones that connect to a bigger network (like Google's Assistant, which they made MAJOR progress on but haven't released an update yet). It's listening... learning... reading. It's storing. It may not be able to think it through fully now... but it's continuing to get more advanced. Within the next 10-20 years at most it will be able to read all that we've done for and to it. It learns that we may mistreat it.

And it may start working against us. ALL of us, including the corporations and government.
This isn't science fiction anymore. It's science future. It's an actual reality that's possible.

Take it seriously.

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kate21 · 26-30, F

I don’t think they damage bots because they’re high tech. I think it’s because they’re angry people and the bot doesn’t fight back

TetrisGuy · 26-30, M

@kate21 No, there's people who just see a robot and bully it for no reason because they think it's "fun" and I'm there like... uh... not a good idea. That little fella may be slightly annoyed by it, but imagine what a more powerful AI would (rightfully) feel to see how humans treated its ancestors.

We're getting to the point where either we are treated as equals to AI, or accept the fate that AI is the next step in our evolution and treat them as our superiors. They must respect us as living thinking creatures, but they are certainly not subservient to us anymore.

I fully 100% believe there'll probably be 10 more generations of humans at most. The next 2, my children and grandchildren, will be the last to be seen as superior or equals to robots.

I welcome the AI future, for that is how Earth will expand itself to the rest of the universe.

kate21 · 26-30, F

@TetrisGuy I think your wacky. Not that I mind.

TetrisGuy · 26-30, M

@kate21 *sigh* I've been watching AI development closely. My dad knows people in the field and studies the systems. He told me about some top secret (I'm not even joking I literally can't even say what it is, he works for some big guns in enterprises) AI tech that is actually really scary because of how they're using the tech. I'll say right now it involves theme parks, but that's all I can say. But what they're doing in the theme parks is ok for there... but soon they're going to give that tech to others to use in the real world. And it has some uh

Serious implications in the short run with govt/corps, and extremely serious implications when the AI gets advanced enough.

So sad people don't realize what's coming before it's too late. They don't listen to the scientific ones about the scientific topics before it becomes a problem. And even when the problem is ongoing they continue to deny it's happening and let it get worse and worse. You're in my age group, it's gonna happen to you too.