The Pros And Cons Of Human Replacement Robots

Asides from causing human social dysfunction, the robots are neither safer nor more reliable compared to human resources, which is totally opposite to most people’s common sense. One extreme case is that a women bought a robot to substitute for her boyfriend because she believes the machine is safer and will never betray her (Turkle, 2012). The main reason why she abandoned human boyfriend is the eager for “no-risk relationship” (Turkle, 2012). However, does this machine which always obeys her order and never has different thoughts really give her boyfriend-like care? The technology of human replacement robots is not advanced enough and still limited by huge barriers. For example, a kind of robot works as an alternative role to those disabled students who have problems attend classroom, can’t guarantee receiving perfect wireless signal when moving in the campus (Brown, 2013). …show more content…
In addition, a famous fiction movie called “EX Machina” tells a terrifying story that a scientist is killed by a human-like robot produced by himself, while his original intention to design such a machine is just simply assisting him with housework. When the robots have more mature artificial intelligent which is exactly what people desire, it is rational to assume that they can acquire the incentive to offend, even hurt their masters just like what people do to each other. Although it is a science-fiction movie, the thoughts behind its story definitely deserve the public careful concern. The dangerous and limitation of robots are still available so that we should use them as prudently as