Technology VS Society

On Thursday, April 30^, 2015, Guangqing Zhang wrote an article on The Government of People called, “Technology VS Income inequality.” Guangqing’s article expresses how rapidly technology is growing and how innovations of robotics will reduce jobs in our society overtime. I agree with Guangqing when she states that the government should take more measures in regulating robotic inventions. Robots can be beneficial to society in many ways, but it also could be a disadvantage to the nations workforce. Overall, robots could be a catastrophe not only to the nation’s workforce, but also to our entire society.

I came across an article on Daily Mail that explains how robots will soon replace 25 percent of US jobs in the year 2025. As a result, millions of people could lose their jobs. The article also inquires if the American people should fear artificial intelligence. Two intelligent men named Stephen Hawk and Elon Musk expressed potential danger of robots if sufficient safeguards ARE NOT put in place. If not, “mankind could be heading to a dark future.”

I enjoyed reading Guangqing’s article because I believe people are not knowledgeable or aware of innovative technology such as robotics and how it can affect our society in many ways. Millions of people could lose their jobs, which could trigger protests and riots. Some say, “In the long term, it could have the potential to play out like a fictional dystopias in which intelligence greater than humans could begin acting against their programming.” Before you know it, the Americans could initiate a war like the movie “i,Robot.”