by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
We are lurching towards a future where AI enabled androids will become good enough — and affordable enough — that the average middle class home may have at least one in their household. And it could happen far sooner than any of us are prepared to accept.
At the speed things are going with AI and robotics, the average middle class family may have an AI-enabled android in their home within a decade. These androids will do chores around the house. And, of course, they will probably provide basic security given the demands of the marketplace.
This opens up a whole range of questions that we just don’t know the answer to. What if the android malfunctions and kills someone? What if they stop an intruder and kill them?
Now, obviously, there is a chance that we’re going to have to figure out if the United States is going to become an autocracy or not before these type of issues come to a head. So, the first use of AI androids could be on some horrific Second American Civil War or Revolution battlefield rather than folding your laundry.
Anyway. I can’t predict the future. Who knows what’s going to happen.
