They say that #automation is the future, but is that really true? Here’s a some thought provoking, first-of-its-kind news from Interesting Engineering today that might challenge that statement. In South Korea, a civil servant “Robot Supervisor” at Gumi City Council was found fully dysfunctional after it fell down a two-meter staircase. Accidents happen, right? The funny thing is, it seems as though the robot’s plunge was deliberate — it wasn’t vandalized or pushed by any physical thing but rather performed it in its own will. Witnesses claim they saw the robot circling in one spot before falling down the stairs, and some #experts have been suggesting the robot had experienced “an emotional breakdown” due to “high stress of its #workload,” and others are writing it off as a simple technical malfunction. What do you all think? Is this a robot “suicide”? Does this make you rethink the limits of technology? Should we consider the moral/ethical concerns of robot integration seriously now?
Everyone thinks that once robots are sentient they’ll be our overlords. But maybe they’ll just look around and not want to be any part of this.
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4dIt must have made a mistake and couldn’t find a tanto to commit seppuku.