What’s very concerning is the potential for AI (artificial intelligence) to put a steadily increasing number of humans out of work. Amazon has recently talked about their plan to stop using delivery trucks and move to drones for example. Think about that for a moment, Amazon was started in 1994 and a delivery service that has been in business for barely 20 years has already technologically advanced past the point of needing delivery men/women. The biggest problem is that in many countries trucking is one of the number one jobs, in this regard Amazon is basically making delivery boys obsolete similar to how milk is no longer delivered door to door. We may think these conveniences are a great thing now however we also need to be fully aware of the likely possibility that within the next hundred we can see massive amounts of unemployment due to lower level menial jobs being overtaken by machine AI.
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Absolutely. I've been following this trend for the past 6 months religiously. There are a lot of concerns that come to mind when it comes to the integration of robotics and AI into society. I hope as a species we are prepared for what's to come and can find a way to create a utopian society as opposed to a dystopian one.