Quotes about Robots Replacing Humans

“You’ve got to buy the robot, but then relatively little op ex. You can work them 24 hours a day. They aren’t going to join a union or get sick, and they don’t expect a salary.” ~Alec Ross
“You shouldn’t fear immigrants taking your job, you should fear robots.” ~Sead Fadilpasic
“Given the complexity of most jobs that involve critical thinking, it’s hard to believe that one day a robot might become a viable option in those roles. It’s true, there’s no current artificial intelligence that can handle making decisions on the fly. However, technology is advancing at such a rapid pace that while the executive robot of the future has yet to be invented, it’s only a matter of time. It’s no longer a question of if, but when.” ~Thomas Shambler
“Robot lawyers would make sense given the tricky road we’re inevitably facing when it comes to robotics law and maybe even robot rights. If robots become the subjects of laws and protections, then perhaps they should learn how to navigate the system. Of course, as with everything else, we run the risk of being surpassed in skill and acumen by our robotic counterparts. Although by then, robot judges may be banging gavels and silencing courtrooms, as well as naysayers.” ~Joelle Renstro
“Sometime in the next 40 years, robots are going to take your job. I don’t care what your job is. If you dig ditches, a robot will dig them better. If you’re a magazine writer, a robot will write your articles better. If you’re a doctor, IBM’s Watson will no longer “assist” you in finding the right diagnosis from its database of millions of case studies and journal articles. It will just be a better doctor than you.” ~Kevin Drum
“As wages increase and the price of technology decreases the decision to invest in robotics and automation becomes much easier because the high return on investment.” ~Dave Waters
“Whether it’s in our cars, our hospitals or our homes, we’ll soon depend upon robots to make judgement calls in which human lives are at stake. That’s why a team of researchers is attempting to model moral reasoning in a robot. In order to pull it off, they’ll need to answer some important questions: How can we quantify the fuzzy, conflicting norms that guide human choices? How can we equip robots with the communication skills to explain their choices in way that we can understand? And would we even want robots to make the same decisions we’d expect humans to make?” ~Kristen Clark
“You take the best and brightest 200 human beings on the planet, you scan their brains and you get robots that to all intents and purposes are indivisible from the humans on which they are based, except a thousand times faster and better.” ~Robin Hanson
“The world of the future will be an even more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves.” ~Norbert Wiener
“The higher the minimum wage goes, the lower the threshold will go for robots to replace humans in many minimum-wage roles.” ~Tom Purcell
“We are approaching a time when machines will be able to outperform humans at almost any task. I believe that society needs to confront this question before it is upon us: if machines are capable of doing almost any work humans can do, what will humans do?” ~Moshe Vardi
“We’ve all heard the predictions: robots are coming for our jobs. And not just factory work, service jobs, or deliveries–we’re talking white collar jobs as well. One of the industries the World Economic Forum predicts will take a hit across the world’s biggest economies is the legal field. While on the surface it might seem impossible to automate a job that requires problem solving, critical thinking, and persuading judges and juries, when one considers the mountains of paperwork and research involved in lawyering, it’s easier to see where machines might have a leg up, so to speak.” ~Joelle Renstrom
“In addition to doing our jobs at least as well as we do them, intelligent robots will be cheaper, faster, and far more reliable than humans. And they can work 168 hours a week, not just 40. No capitalist in her right mind would continue to employ humans.” ~Kevin Drum
“Our intuition about the future is linear. But the reality of information technology is exponential, and that makes a profound difference. If I take 30 steps linearly, I get to 30. If I take 30 steps exponentially, I get to a billion.” ~Ray Kurzweil
“First, stop thinking of robots. A robot is a container for AI, sometimes mimicking the human form, sometimes not–but the AI itself is the computer inside the robot. AI is the brain, and the robot is its body–if it even has a body.” ~Tim Urban
“It’s not if robots are going to replace humans, it is when are robots going to replace humans?” ~Dave Waters
“Because salaries are likely to stagnate as minimum-wage hikes will stimulate the use of more robots. Corporate profits will balloon. Labor unions may disappear or be forced to make wholesale changes, as unemployment is likely to rise. And because robots don’t pay taxes, the government must discover additional revenue streams.” ~Gregory Clay