Will Robots Take My Career Choice?

With advances in automation technology springing up sporadically in todays culture it’s only inevitable that jobs will be taken by robots. This is due to these working bots outperforming their human counterparts. An important question that should be asked by all is, “will robots take my career choice?” One specific career that poses interest in automation is a career choice in Law enforcement. After thorough research one can conclude that, although robots have the ability to take many aspects of police work, Robots may take some parts of the job but won't completely replace humans there are many aspects that a robot can't do such as dealing with human morals, being reliable, and analyzing data with human logic. One can argue that robots do
That is, robots don’t have standards or beliefs that determine what’s right and what’s wrong like humans do. Coby McDonald, writer in Berkeley, University of California’s magazine asserts, “As machines get smarter and smarter, it becomes more important that their goals, what they are trying to achieve with their decisions, are closely aligned with human values”. What McDonald is saying is that robots have yet understand human values and that their goals aren’t aligned with them. This in turn makes it hard for them to take jobs in law enforcement because it deals heavily with human values. Another reason that human morals is a problem for robot police workers is when McDonald goes on to say, “There is no agreed upon universal set of human morals. Morality is culturally specific, continually evolving, and eternally debated. If robots are to live by an ethical code, where will it come from?”. McDonald is basically saying that since there are many variables that play in human morals, robots won’t be able to have a set of rules to follow. If they can’t follow set rules, then the robots won’t be able to be programmed correctly to fully replace people
Robots run into problems frequently whether it be mechanical or programming errors. When these errors occur the reliability and dependability of robot police officers decrease. In a research on potential robot SWAT officers Henry L. Jones Professor at Stanford University lists some problems that the robots ran into. One of the problems is stated when Jones says, “The considerable difficulty in building a consistent centralized world model indicates the necessity of relying on local sensing for robot tactical maneuvers” (Jones) What Jones means by this is that it is extremely difficult to train and prepare robots for all types of settings and that they heavily rely on sensors. When one of those goes out the robot is rendered inept. Another example of robots being useless is seen in military bots. Noah Shachtman, writer of Wired magazine reports, “three of these deadly … robots were recently sent to Iraq. But even now, safety concerns (among other reasons) have kept those machines from firing a shot in combat seen in a military bot”. The point that Shachtman is trying to emphasize is that with these bots made to protect us any error or safety concern renders them useless and unreliable. Similar issues in police bots will also render them