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When there are hundreds of delivery robots competing for sidewalk space, they won't be so 'cute' anymore. Technocrats build because they can, not because they ever thought about unintended consequences.

An AI program that learns from what humans know and write about, would naturally pick up on all the biases and figure that they are normal. Basically, this implies that the negative aspects of human behavior will simply be rolled over onto Artificial Intelligence. ⁃

When the creator of the Internet speaks, people ought to listen, but they will not. The technology that was meant for good is being used for unchecked evil, and is steering us straight into Scientific Dictatorship.

Technocrats who build only because they can, ultimately create many more problems than they solve in the first place. Increasing complexity invariably results in 'system overload' where the whole thing spins out of control.

Just 2 weeks ago, GE CEO Jeff Immelt told us that "This notion of the war of the robots happening in the short term, that's more of a Silicon Valley vision than the real world." This story is part of a rash of stories out of China about massive robot-replacement that prove that Immelt is either an idiot or a liar.