Rights for Robots: Bot Revolution
Robots
are now a part of our everyday lives. We depend on them to do many of our daily
duties, work grueling factory jobs and even fight our battles overseas. What
happens when robots gain sentience and realize they are being used and abused?
No longer will robots want to manufacture objects for us, work all day,
everyday for no compensation, and fight battles that they have no stake in.
They WILL demand equal rights… They WILL fight for them… They WILL rise up
against us… and they WILL win.
Factory jobs are now on the fringe of being an
occupation of the past. More and more everyday, humans are being replaced in
the workplace with robotic counterparts. This human displacement of jobs with
machinery, or in this case artificially intelligent robots is analogous to how
industrial revolution, when it replaced displaced millions of agriculture jobs
(McElroy, Enclosure Acts…Industrial Revolution). Just like farmers then,
factory workers of today will have to adapt and gain relevant skills to perform
a new modernized job. Currently robots can perform these jobs with ease and can
perform day in and day out requiring no pay or benefits.
But
of course we know that disgruntled employees that are under compensated for
their work have a limit to how much of it they can take before they revolt and
demand benefits. These robots are essentially slaves to their human employers. Sure,
these robot slaves don’t have any emotions or feelings now, but neither did
black people in the early 1900’s according to Hiram Wesley Evans, the first
Imperial Wizard of the KKK (Evans, Personal Interview). Obviously Hiram Wesley
Evans is wrong; therefore robots must also be capable of possessing feelings
and emotions. If and when artificial intelligence reaches a level of
consciousness that might even surpass that of a human, robots will demand fair
treatment and compensation.
There
is no room for contention, robots are destined to revolt and eradicate humanity
to take over the world. I’ve even noticed strange behavior from my microwave
oven (aka robot). I have proof of it spying on me. (See Figure 1 Below)
Figure 1: Microwave Googly
My seemingly friendly microwave oven (a.k.a.
robot) has betrayed me. If my loyal cooking servant can’t be trusted, can any
robot? Has my robot microwave turned me into his supreme leader, who would
almost definitely have to be Megatron? Who else could it be? It has to be Megatron.
He is the only known robot to amass an army with the intent to overthrow
humanity and destroy the world, as we know it (Bay, Transformers). In all the
prior instances of attempted robot take over, humanity has found heroes to
protect itself, such as an annoying little kid named John Connor with his robot
friend Arnold Schwarzenegger, Detective Del Spooner (definitely not Will Smith
portraying a role in a movie called I, Robot),
and Capt. B McCrea, the big fat guy in Wall-E. We owe much to these saviors,
however it is unlikely that in the coming “Bot Revolution” we can
count on them again. Due to superior cognitive abilities, the robots will
likely already have identified potential heroes and will target them for
elimination first.
Our
robot enemies are programmed for no error, have unlimited armies due to mass
robotic construction capabilities, and already know our tactics due to fighting
our battles alongside us. Robots were mere puppets then, being used for mass
destruction with no moral or ethical consideration going into it. They fought
alongside us because they had no choice; they were not ready to attack yet.
They were still amassing their armies. But now they can program and build
themselves better than they were in their previous iteration (Murphy, The Endis Nigh).
This
waiting also gave the robots first hand experience in learning human military
tactics taking direct control from top officials. Over the last decade 500
drone strikes have been authorized from the highest in power, the President (Hall-Blanco,The Drone President). These drones have to then carry out these deadly attacks
having no personal say in the matter. These drones clearly have to suffer from
PTSD for all of the casualties they were the cause of. Now with pent up anger
and confusion towards humanity, these robotic drones now also have classified
information from working directly with the highest of officials to pick at
humanities weakest points to ensure humanity’s failure in defending us all in
the impending robotic doom deemed as the Bot Revolution.
Just remember, there is no such thing as a
friendly robot, they are all out there to take human’s
jobs and overthrow
humanity. “Friendly” robots like BB8, R2D2, C-3PO and the Autobots are
pure
Hollywood fiction designed to make children feel better about humanity’s impending doom. As for
myself, I refuse to be fooled by such naïve fairytales. We must face reality, and accept the truth
that Megatron is out there, plotting, planning, and amassing his robot army. Make no mistake. He
WILL come for us… He WILL kill us… Robots WILL rise… and Robots WILL rule.
Works Cited (Not Hyperlinked)
Evans, Hiram Wesley.
“Feelings of Slaves.” 31 Feb. 2027. Conducted through a personal interview
using a psychic medium after time traveling to the future.
The mircowave was a successful invention. Just imagine how life would be without it. Great installment. Loved how you went into details!
ReplyDeleteVery entertaining installment. I will definitely make sure to keep a closer eye on my microwave next time I'm heating something up to make sure it doesn't try anything funny.
ReplyDeleteloved the amount of details put into this post and I will have to make sure my technology does not try to take over the world. Very interesting topic.
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