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Some people worry that robots will take over the world. Here are 10 reasons why it wouldn't be so bad.

For starters, one question: will robots help to improve our lives or destroy it?

Some worry that robots will take their jobs. Others are afraid that robots will enslave us or make us their pets. Some people think that robots are just expensive technology that will not bring us any benefits. Others see a utopian future in which humans will not have to undertake dangerous and meaningless tasks.

And now about the robots. No matter what the future brings us, it will be interesting. And who said that people are the best that can be? We pollute the planet, destroy natural resources, offend each other and create chaos on a fairly organized planet. Maybe robots can clean our mess halls like Wally did, but we need to leave the planet for that to happen.

There is no reason to believe that robots will be worse at controlling the planet than humans. Thus, we present to you:

Ten reasons robots should rule the world

1. You probably don't like your job. Only 13% of people in the world really love their job. Who, then, would mind if robots take over this job?

2. Your cat is doing well. Your cat sleeps 20 hours a day. Cats wake up to eat and to be scratched behind their ears. If we are pets of robots, life does not look so bad.

3. We use them. Remember, robots can work 24 hours a day without fatigue. They don't need food and can be trained to fix themselves in the event of a breakdown. Why do they need people-slaves? Are they going to watch us work? Are they going to enslave us to cook food they don't need, just so we can survive and be their slaves?

4. We could revive the plot of the song Mr. Roboto. Admit it, you've always wanted to dress up as a robot and lead a revolution. But you have a human heart. Your blood is boiling. Your brain is a calculating machine.

5. TV shows about robots are interesting enough. Do you remember the TV series "Little Miracle"? (TV series about a robot girl). “She's a little miracle. She is wonderful! She's made of plastic! She has microchips all over her body. She brings love and joy! " This is what I expect from robots when they take over the world.

6. If we're lucky, they'll just evict us. Maybe instead of killing us, they'll just build a spaceship and send us off Earth. And we will have to begin to master and destroy another planet.

7. Controlling the Earth is difficult. Let someone else do it. Why bother? Robots are able to solve many problems at the same time. They can think about global warming and what to cook for dinner. Many people can only sort and recycle bottles.

8. It wasn't that bad. Humans ruled the earth for about 150,000-200,000 years. And that was good enough. Who dares to say that another 150,000 will be just as good?

9. No more telemarketing. Robots will not try to sell you anything.

10. The only difference between a robot and your boss is that the robot does its job. You can call your bosses impersonal slaves. They don't understand jokes. They can work for you forever. The robots don't know what they are doing. But they do their job.

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The Russian government is discussing a new AI-based model case law enforcement system; in the State Duma, meanwhile, promise to regulate the relationship between the robot and the person by 2022.

PR on a fashionable topic, but only partially: in May 2017, the European Commission announced a series of initiatives to regulate robotics and artificial intelligence. Earlier, the EU Parliament proposed to endow robots with the status of "electronic personalities": in fact, three laws of robotics are being introduced into practice, which American science fiction writer Isaac Asimov formulated in 1950.

The main goal of these initiatives is to allow technology to develop so that it does not harm humans.

Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics

A robot cannot harm a person or, by its inaction, allow harm to be done to a person.

A robot must obey all orders given by a person, except when these orders are contrary to the first law.

The robot must take care of its safety to the extent that it does not contradict the first or second laws.

"Round Dance", Isaac Asimov, 1942

"Electronic personalities" are only the first step towards legitimizing the fact that there are whole classes of "intermediate" beings between humans and inanimate objects, says Russian sociologist Alexei Titkov. What this threatens, the expert told the correspondent of the BBC Russian Service Andrei Soshnikov.

BBC A: When talking about regulating robots, catastrophic scenarios often come up. Will robots really threaten humanity if smart law is not adopted now?

A.T .: Why catastrophic scenarios appear is a question not so much for robots as for people, for human culture. Imagination started long before robotics appeared. Take the "Civil Law Norms on Robotics" adopted by the European Parliament. Seemingly serious people, lawyers, in the very first paragraphs of the official document remember Frankenstein and Golem, the robots Chapek and Asimov. It seems that it is quite an infrequent case when cultural fantasy is directly called the source for the consciousness of law.

Experts associate the biggest risks of a "machine uprising" not with robots, but computer networks... The "singularity point" scenario, in which networked artificial intelligence becomes independent and begins to rule the world, and turns us into "gray goo", it seems to be the most scary option discussed by experts. Whether he can really scare ordinary people is not sure. Of the vivid cultural samples showing such a scenario, so far only the film "The Matrix", and even it "clings", rather, something else. The danger is rationally understandable, but too far removed from human experience to be dire.

In the last century it was simpler: the atomic bomb was a completely familiar subject, everyone knew well how to be afraid of it. Robots, after all, are from the same series: the most visible, tangible part of the digital world, products that are commensurate with our scale. We are afraid of them not because the risks are the greatest, but because they are closest to our usual human fears.

BBC : Two scenarios that are just well reflected in popular culture - the uprising of people against robots due to lack of jobs and the uprising of robotic "slaves" against human "masters". Which of these scenarios is less improbable?

A.T .: Robots take up all jobs, leave us out of work - the plot is quite believable. You can treat him with optimism, like Karl Marx in the famous "Fragment about machines", you can fear, but no more than the usual new technologies or the influx of migrants. The second option, regardless of its likelihood, is emotionally scarier. Literature about robots began with exactly the following plot: in Czapek's play "R.U.R." armed robots revolted and destroyed people. From the point of view of social theory, the problem with this scenario is that in the modern world, unlike the ancient world, people no longer know how to handle slaves. The creatures that are in our possession, fulfill our desires, but at the same time have their own will - we have almost forgotten that this is possible. For us, there is a human world in which all people are equal, and apart from it the world of nature and things, and between them there is a clear border.

The famous manifesto of Bruno Latour "There was no modern time" proves that this border is rather ghostly, imaginary, in fact, we are constantly dealing with hybrids of an intermediate nature. Robots are a powerful example of this hybridity. Much of the worry about robots is that they don't fit well into our usual classifications. This is a challenge for our picture of the world and separately for the legal system, which must classify everything very clearly.

BBC : Let's say an ultra-smart toaster every morning asks how you are doing, adjusts to your wishes and independently monitors the Internet for new toast recipes. From when can you say that a toaster has a will or that he is a member of society?

A.T .: Sociologists will have to deal with such issues more and more. Philosophers of consciousness have become attached to the figure of a "zombie", a being who has no consciousness or feelings, but which acts as if they were. For sociology, robots, which are not “human” but act and participate in a social order, must become a similarly difficult object.

The world, in which machines show their will, has come, in fact, a long time ago. Alexey Titkov, sociologist

Political theory suggests that citizenship rights are gradually expanding: the poor, women, partly children, have received rights, and animals and autonomous mechanisms are next in line. Front-line sociologists and philosophers like Steve Fuller are already seriously tackling this prospect.

At the same time, similar problems are creepingly solved in practice. This is indicative of American case law, which has already had to deal with the status of a robot. Back in the 1950s, the court had to decide whether to consider a toy robot "an image of an animate creature" or an "inanimate" - the size of the tax rate that was to be levied on toys depended on this. Thus, it turns out that the question of whether the robots themselves should be considered "animate" was indirectly solved. In the 1980s, the court had to find out whether to consider a musical robot installed in a shopping center a "performer" - if they were recognized as a "performer", they would have to pay royalties. Then it was decided not, but robots are improving, and no one guarantees that at some point there will not be a decisive change that will force the court to change its assessment.

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EU lawyers are debating the extent to which we can regard robots as being responsible. The solution has so far been formulated in an extremely general form: to the extent that the robot is autonomous from its creator.

Suppose we accept such a model and introduce a graduated scale for robots and any machines according to their degree of independence. Technically, it will work, but you have to get used to the fact that there is no longer a clear line between "us", people, and "them," things. In the ancient picture of the world, in the medieval, in primitive totemism, it was easier with this understanding, we will have to relearn again.

BBC : Returning to the topic of robot rights. If they are not capable of suffering, then why do they need rights at all?

A.T .: The argument that "a machine cannot suffer" was expressed more than half a century ago by one of the seminar participants, at which Norbert Wiener, the father of cybernetics, spoke. Wiener then replied: "We don't know it yet."

A test that would measure a machine's ability to feel "humanly" is also one of the themes that occupy our culture. You can recall at least the "Voight-Kampf test", which identified robots in the novel by Philip Dick and the movie "Blade Runner", which he inspired. The novel and the film, as we remember, are exactly about how unstable and unobvious the border between "us" and "them" is, with the big question whether "they" will turn out to be the same as "we".

In Russia, techno-optimism is, rather, forced, due to distrust of the institutions where people decide. Imagine at least a choice between a road safety camera and a "protein" traffic police officer. Many will probably prefer the first option. Alexey Titkov, sociologist

An affirmative answer - "yes, they are the same" - may be prompted by our tendency to endow much of what we interact with with animate traits. To "talk in an amicable way" with a broken printer, a stalled motor, a jammed lock is a habit that seems completely irrational, but strongly rooted in human sociality.

With robots, even a little like a person or an animal, such skills work even more. There are many known cases of this happening. American soldiers in Afghanistan attached themselves to sapper robots as pets, gave them names, and after breakdowns and repairs asked them to return "their" sapper. Carnegie Mellon University employees were jealous of their colleagues, with whom the snackbot robot, serving snacks, spoke more friendly than them. A robot with four legs is tested for stability, whether it will hold out after the step, and we sympathize with it like a puppy or a kitten.

The next move we can make as reflective beings is to think about how conscious robots will perceive us. Such a thought experiment is proposed by the philosopher Manuel Delanda: imagine that intelligent machines one day want to write their history - what role will they give us in it? Own line evolution, the "machine phylum", will be the main one for them, and we are probably auxiliary life forms, like bacteria or domestic animals, which helped them to take place.

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BBC : In this case, our opinion on how many rights to give robots, they themselves will not care. Rights are not given, rights are taken?

A.T .: Perhaps robots will create their own right, perhaps not. We are now in trouble with our own legal framework. It is relatively easy to protect robots with negative rights, which cannot be done with them. Already now to any calculator or washing machine attached instructions on how to handle them, and how not. It is more difficult with positive rights, what robots can do, and with responsibility: who to punish for their mistakes.

The same Bruno Latour proposed the idea of \u200b\u200ba "parliament of things" twenty years ago. The idea was that different hybrid entities (for example, ozone holes) should be represented in human discussions. The scheme is about the same as with the representation of children and the disabled, whose interests are represented by adults with full legal capacity. Then the idea seemed to look shocking, now it is literally one step away from practical discussion. Grishin's bill from Mail.ru (in 2016, the head of Mail.ru, founder of Grishin Robotics Dmitry Grishin and lawyer Viktor Naumov developed a draft law on robotics - BBC) offers, in fact, a similar option. The robot can be given the right to perform work, to make transactions, but in court - an important point - the interests of the robot must be represented by a person.

Now this decision seems to be more conservative. The next group of questions is next in turn - also somewhere halfway between fantasy and practice: can robots vote, can they make judgments. "Forensic robots" for simple stencil cases are already, as we can see, a boring reality that is about to come. The most interesting thing here is the unexpectedly high willingness to trust the automatic judges. According to the Eurobarometer poll, every fifth person has a positive attitude to the appearance of robotic judges in Russia, and every fourth in the European Union countries. In our case, techno-optimism is rather forced, due to distrust of the institutions where people decide. Imagine at least a choice between a road safety camera and a "protein" traffic police officer. Many will probably prefer the first option.

BBC : Speaker of the State Duma Viacheslav Volodin pass laws on robotics by 2022. How soon will the world you describe come?

A.T .: There is a large element of the political conjuncture in statements of this kind. Activity on this topic started after the 2016 presidential message, from which we learned that the digital economy is now a national priority. The rhetoric with which such initiatives are introduced is also recognizable: if we do not adopt our legislation today, tomorrow it will be developed and adopted by "NATO soldiers" for us. The good side of the announced projects is that while they are being conceived as laws for growth, the task of which is to stimulate, not prohibit.

The world, in which machines show their will, has come, in fact, a long time ago. The simplest case, which we all know very well, is technical breakdowns. A broken printer, a jammed ATM, an automatic machine with chocolates that does not want to give away our purchase - these are the most common everyday situations now. The rest of the world of autonomous cars is also on the way. Drone drones are already subject to litigation and industry guidelines. We are already deciding what this world will be like, and we are learning to live in it.

Alexey Titkov - Associate Professor of the Philosophical and Sociological Faculty of the RANEPA, Lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciencesto.

Humanoid robot Sofia appeared on Good Morning Britain as a guest with her creator, Dr. David Hanson, founder of Hanson Robotics.

During the interview, Sofia answered questions from the hosts and tried to portray human emotions, some of which the robot does quite well. Nonetheless

the host of the program, Pierce Morgan, and numerous viewers agreed that Sophia scares them a little.

Robots who care

Before the interview began, the presenters warned that the questions were prepared in advance, and the answers were programmed, but the purpose of the plot was precisely to demonstrate how Sofia can interact with people and maintain a conversation.

When asked about the UK, the robot replied that she really likes "architecture, art, technology and, of course, people." Sofia also noted that she really enjoyed meeting new people at a tech exhibition in London.

Morgan joked, calling the girl a "freak", which is why he was criticized by his colleague Suzanne Reed, who asked him to be more polite.

In fact, this remark is quite justified - in some moments of the interview, Sofia seemed so real that only the mechanical voice of a robot and a transparent "skull" without hair gave her away.

If Sofia was wearing a wig, the human resemblance would be even more pronounced.

The hosts decided to find out what would be the ideal man for Sofia. The robot joked that she was still about a year old and it was still too early to think about a couple, but said that her partner should be "super-wise, understanding and super-genius."

Reed posed a “provocative question” to Sofia, asking if robots would ever rule the world. Her interlocutor expressed the hope that robots and people in the future will become even wiser and can coexist together. Here Sophia expressed the thoughts of her creator David Hanson, who once explained the purpose of Hanson Robotics:

"We're trying to build relationships with machines that can understand us and then take care of us."

Earlier, Sofia visited the American The tonight show , where I talked to showman Jimmy Fallon - they even played a game of rock-paper-scissors. The presenter was a little nervous and was wary of the new experience.

This opinion is shared by Internet users commenting on videos with Sofia. “God, she scares me. She looks more real than some people I know, ”they write in the comments on YouTube.

“Someone laughed at her phrase that soon she would dominate the human race? I personally do not, ”wrote another commentator.

Interestingly, in Sofia's first promo video in 2016, when Hanson jokingly asked if she would exterminate humanity, the robot replied in the affirmative. Then the creator laughed and asked her not to.

Creativity and compassion

Sophia is the most advanced robot in Hanson Robotics, with an appearance reminiscent of actress Audrey Hepburn. Dr. David Hanson, who previously worked at Disney, is literally obsessed with the idea of \u200b\u200bcreating robots that can learn to be creative, compassionate and compassionate - in his opinion, these are three qualities that artificial intelligence must have in order to solve problems that are too difficult for humans.

Just a year after the release, Sofia actively participates in interviews, presentations and exhibitions along with her “colleagues” from Hanson Robotics, demonstrating how robots can become an integral part of human life.

At the end of last year, Sofia even got on the cover of the glossy magazine Elle, which no robot had ever done before.

In February 2017, the Chairman of the State Duma Viacheslav Volodin made a proposal to prepare a bill on regulating the relationship between a robot and a person. According to him, such laws will be adopted everywhere by 2022. Volodin is sure that in the very near future the world will face the need legal regulation this area.

European politicians are of a similar opinion. Earlier, a bill was introduced to the European Parliament to provide the legal status of "electronic persons" for robots. The author of the initiative, Madi Delvaux, believes that in the current technological progress, it is necessary to establish in advance the basic ethical standards regarding artificial intelligence in order to avoid problems in the future.

Businessman Elon Musk also believes that only a couple of decades are left before the superiority of artificial intelligence over human. At the same time, he noted the possible negative consequences of such progress.

“One of the most troubling issues is artificial intelligence. I mean one that is much smarter than a person on Earth. This is a dangerous situation ",

- said Musk during the summit in Dubai in February 2017.

The billionaire said that the development of artificial intelligence could lead to disastrous consequences for all of humanity when competition for jobs begins.

And they hang out on "rukhods". Not a single parent or adult is visible anywhere, and a robot about a meter tall and weighing 117 kg is watching the children.

If you look closely, it turns out that children wear compact electronic devices, miniature radio transmitters, signaling to the robot when the child is moving away to a dangerous distance. A robot equipped with a video camera transmits an image to a remote observation point. When a stranger approaches any of the children, the remote-controlled robot becomes aggressive. He chases the intruder on his six wheels, flashes his headlights, howls a siren and spews out clouds of smoke. In addition, the cyber guard takes several pictures.

You will say that this is still far away? Perhaps only the Japanese company Secom has already created such a machine - Robot x ... She rents out a robotic bodyguard for $ 2,700 a month, and recently released a version for monitoring school grounds that reports the whereabouts of children to parents on a cell phone.

To some, the idea of \u200b\u200ba robotic bodyguard for schoolchildren may seem ingenious, while to others - absurd, but Robot X is suitable not only for guarding playgrounds. This is one of several significant attempts to equip robots with senses that would allow them to better interact with people and the surrounding objects using RFID (radio frequency identification) - an electronic identification technology that has become widespread in libraries, prisons, hospitals over the past year. shops, airports, troops, industrial plants and warehouses. And, of course, she comes to schools. “In fact, we still have no idea what kind of technology it is,” says Rob Richards, head of Canada's Frontline Robotics. "Its applications are endless."

This concept has already captured several minds. Scientists in Germany, Japan and the United States are seeing a myriad of RFID-controlled mobile robot applications. An assistant professor at the University of Utah is experimenting with one designed to accompany blind people in a store - this robot helps them navigate through the counters and find the products they need.

Others hope the technology will eventually help families look after elderly or disabled relatives, deliver medications at the hospital, and do housework. For example, Germany's Infineon Technologies is using RFID to release a Teutonic version of the popular U.S. iRobot Roomba robot vacuum cleaner. The Infineon machine is equipped with an RFID reader, and in the "smart carpet" mode, into which RFID tags are embedded, the robot will not miss a single crumbs or specks of dust, bypassing the floor along the most efficient route.

Accenture, a California-based company, believes this technology will make toys and games more fun. Imagine a doll that distinguishes between accessories and may require new ones, or discovers other toys and reacts to them. You will never get tired of playing with such a Barbie.

Last year, IBM patented a self-orienting machine equipped with a Wi-Fi location system and an RFID reader. She should help stores and businesses to keep track of goods and inventory. And at Mitsubishi Electric's R&D lab, robots are combined with RFID systems and photo sensors to manipulate tools on assembly lines. Hewlett-Packard is adding ultrasound with ultra-wideband radio technology.

However, do not rush to the store for a “smart toy” or a robot assistant for shopping: all these technologies will reach us only in years. There are very few commercial RFID robots today. Their entry into the mass market is still hampered by cost and technical constraints. “Today, robots with RFID tags can be found mainly in demonstrations; We're still very far from practical commercial applications, ”said Kevin Ashton, vice president of marketing for RFID equipment manufacturer ThingMagic. "But the idea is undoubtedly promising."

One of the main problems is that in order to detect something or someone, the robot needs an RFID tag on this object. The tags consist of a radio antenna and a microchip. They do not have their own power supply, but when scanning with a special reader, they transmit a unique sequence number.

Over the past year, as prices for RFID technology have fallen and technical standards have emerged, companies have provided thousands of tags to everything from casino chips to library books. According to In-Stat's forecast, worldwide RFID revenues will grow from $ 300 million in 2004 to $ 2.8 billion in 2009.

Robot in warehouse
However, in order to appear on everyday objects, tags must become much cheaper. Today they can cost anywhere from 15 cents all the way to $ 100. At these prices, retailers and consumer goods manufacturers use RFID tags for containers or pallets to keep track of items in the warehouse. On individual toothpaste tubes and sock bags, RFID tags will not appear until the price drops below 5 cents. And before that, a few more years.

This is why IBM is building a dedicated RFID robot for the warehouse. “At home everything should be tagged. This is an obstacle to entering the consumer market, says a researcher at the IBM Research Laboratory. Watson's David Wood. - That is why we are dealing with a warehouse. There is a lot of money involved. "

This is not an exaggeration. Wal-Mart, which is actively investing in RFID for its high-tech supply chain, has invested about $ 3 billion in the technology. Other major retailers, including Albertsons, Target, Britain's Tesco and Germany's Metro Group, are making their own plans for RFID.

But the IBM robot is still only a prototype. The company came up with this idea after a brainstorming session with RFID specialists from the Lab. Watson and the local service team. Scientists reasoned that when companies tag everything with RFID tags, they will face a problem. You will either have to hire people to walk around the warehouse with the reader, or install expensive readers throughout the premises. And they chose the third option - a mobile RFID robot that can navigate. “After a shift, he can systematically walk around the warehouse and take a full inventory of all inventory,” says Richards of Frontline Robotics, who is working on a similar system.

Last year, a University of Michigan intern put together a prototype for IBM using mostly commercially available components: an IBM ThinkPad laptop, an RFID reader from Intermec Technologies, and an indoor location system. finnish company Ekahau. The prototype used a Roomba vacuum cleaner as the actual robot. “We took out the mechanism of the vacuum cleaner so that it runs quietly and uses less energy,” explained Wood.

IBM is seeking to patent, in particular, a program designed to improve the accuracy of Ekahau orientation. The company looks forward to hearing from the US Patent Office, but even more from customers. There are no plans to release commercial systems yet. “We've discussed this with some of the customers, but I can't name them,” Wood said.

A young company called Frontline wants to be one of the first in North America to launch a commercially available RFID robot. It is in talks with a major RFID manufacturer that supplies technology to Wal-Mart. Richards, the chief operating officer of Frontline, did not name it, but hopes the companies will sign an agreement this fall that will allow them to connect their technologies. In this case, by next spring, Frontline will be able to produce thousands of devices.

Richards claims Wal-Mart is interested in the robot, but a Wal-Mart spokesman denies this. “We do not work with robots in any way or form,” said company spokeswoman Christie Gallagher. Wal-Mart recently denied also eWeek message , which said that they are testing a robot created at the University of Utah to accompany the blind in the store and search for products for them. In May, eWeek wrote that the manager of a Wal-Mart store near the university confirmed that they have such a robot. Wal-Mart attorneys are somehow sensitive about this. They contacted the university about the eWeek article, after which the researchers refuted their previous claims of Wal-Mart's interest in the technology.

However, Frontline does not stake on Wal-Mart or others. retail chains... She presents her robots just like the Japanese Secom - as high-tech guards. Richards said the company already has partnerships with the Canadian government, several airports and an overseas military customer. “Robots can patrol an area much more efficiently than humans,” Richards says. - They don't call cell phone and do not fall asleep. And it's not so scary if something happens to them. "

RFID experts, including very knowledgeable folks at Accenture and HP, say RFID robots may never become popular, at least in some of the areas that now spring to mind. Firstly, indoor orientation technology, the main component of a warehouse management system, is difficult to implement and is only developing. Second, mobile autonomous robots are relatively clumsy, complex, and expensive. “The more mechanical moving parts, the more likely it is to fail,” says Salil Vijaykumar Pradhan, chief technologist for RFID at HP's Palo Alto Lab. "More practical solutions can be found in commercial and corporate environments."

In his opinion, robots are more useful where there is no infrastructure, such as on Mars or on the battlefield in Iraq. Factories, warehouses and shops already have sufficient infrastructure. Why bother with a robot when you can attach an RFID reader to an electric vehicle or shopping cart that drives around anyway? “Personally, I've always been fascinated by robots; they have great potential, says Pradhan. “But they are not suitable for all occasions. If there is a simpler solution, then it is preferable. "

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Thanks to the efforts of many scientists, modern civilization is developing dynamically. And in the 19th century there was technological leap, which brought humanity to a new stage of development. Soon people will be able to colonize the "Red Planet" or go beyond the boundaries of our galaxy. And there are a huge number of development paths and humanity seems to be moving in the right direction, trying to comprehend the foundations of the universe.

But, at the same time, despite such a stunning technical progress, over the past 45 thousand years, no changes have occurred directly with man as a species of living organisms. According to the evolutionary concept, as soon as a species stops developing and getting better, a gradual recession and further decadence of the species begins. In the scientific community, more and more opinions are beginning to sound that humanity has reached the limit of its evolutionary development. What awaits a person in the future? Will humanity be able to continue to exist as a species of living organisms, or does the fate of the dinosaurs await it?

Evolution or decadence of humanity

Our planet is not going through the most better time... Sadly, the world is on the brink of a huge collapse. Indeed, according to statistics, the world's population is increasing, resources are being depleted, and renewable resources do not have time to recover. For example, forests in South America are cut faster than new young trees grow, drinking water is becoming a real shortage, and in some regions of the planet, food is not enough for all people. More than 24-25 thousand people die of hunger every day. In the near future, humanity will face the following problems:
aging of the population in developed countries;
changing climatic conditions on the planet;
shortage of resources, food;
shrinking labor market due to the use of technology;
increased information load.

One of the ways to resolve all existing problems is the transition of mankind to a new stage of evolutionary development.

The famous scientist Stephen Hawking has been calling for the beginning of the process of cybernation of humanity for many years in a row. According to his theory, technological "pumping" of a person will consist in changing his nervous system, optimizing it with computers, which significantly expand the intellectual capabilities of people, as well as replacing some parts of the body with mechanical analogs.

At first glance, it might seem that the scientist's idea is completely insane. However, at the moment, research is being carried out in this direction in the world.

What awaits humanity in the near future?

Today, in developed countries, the implantation of computer chips into human bodies is widely used. In addition, some large corporations, when applying for a job, put forward requirements for job seekers to have a special chip implanted. The device implanted into the human body does not cause allergies and can be removed from the body quite simply. However, the precedent itself is interesting.

In modern medicine, devices are widely used that are implanted into the patient's body and stabilize the work of internal organs or collect and transmit information about the patient's condition.

Moreover, the possibility of transplanting the head of one person with the preservation of his personality on a new body is already being considered. Even a volunteer has already been found who is ready to take a chance in this dangerous experiment.

At the moment, a technology is being developed in the United States, called NeuroNet. The developers are confident that in the near future it will be possible to create a stable platform for the functioning of the human and computer nervous systems. The technology will significantly expand the mental capacity of people and launch a real biotechnical revolution. NeuroNet will create the new kind people who will have hybrid human-machine intelligence. The use of technology is limitless: a person will receive an almost limitless memory, the level of information processing will increase, the brain will be able to solve the most complex problems, and the cognitive capabilities of the brain will increase.

All this will lead to the fact that improved people will begin to gradually oust ordinary people from all prestigious positions, turning them into second-class biomaterial. In addition, research in this direction will accelerate the creation of artificial intelligence.

Will robots rule the world?

Large companies in Japan and South Korea are intensively creating companion robots that communicate with the elderly and people with disabilities, educate children and become children for mothers without children. Robots have already learned how to maintain a conversation with a person, distinguish his emotions, make purchases, and even some completely intimate things.

Sophie's robot, became the first robot in the world to receive citizenship. The king of the UAE made the robot his subjects after talking to him.

In some countries, the serial production and sale of robots that can replace a sexual partner for humans are already beginning. These machines can mimic the sounds of sexual pleasure, respond to human touch, and most importantly, they learn the habits of their partner and adapt to them.

In the near future, robots will become very human-like. According to Professor Oliver Sharpe, such a technological leap will lead to the fact that people will stop communicating with each other and start families. After all, it is much easier to have an agreeable partner who will not pester you with various problems.

As soon as the robot firmly enters into everyday life, there will be a danger of ousting people from certain sectors of the economy. Gradual job cuts will begin. The first to be abolished will be professions that do not require much intellectual thinking, but require physical effort. As an option, professions: scavenger, cleaner, loader, handyman.

Further development of technologies will allow to entrust robots with more responsible work, accountant, economist, statistician ... And then ... maybe robots will oust the person himself ...

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