Thank you, finally a solid answer. I’ll check it out :)

While I like the sentiment, regulation is helpful in most areas, at least to some small extent. I’m a huge advocate for drug legalization and harm reduction, but I don’t think that making meth freely available at CVS would be a boon to society in any way… As a chemist that knows how easy it is to manufacture several nerve gases from Home Depot chemicals, im also glad that information is at least not freely available and distributed to anyone who has a grudge against, let’s say, a former teacher.

If everyone was a fair actor and behaved in good faith, I agree let’s just see where this AI train leads, full speed ahead. But at risk of sounding like the “wake up sheeple” guy, there’s a lot of people already that are being harmed by their own inability to see the damage that new technologies are having on them (do you really think TikTok is a better use of people’s time than whatever they were doing before it?), and not everyone is as farsighted as most of us on this sub

Kinda half agree, but I think the difference is you’re leaving your robot alone.

Think of how scared people get that they left the oven on. The oven, is literally made to be ran on max power for half a day at a time. Which will likely do nothing but char your chicken nuggets to a crisp and leave smoke in the house. But because you’re away from home it’s unknown and who knows, maybe everything could catch fire.

If a robot can recognize clothes on the ground, use a dexterous limb to grab them and put them in the washer, turn knobs and then recognize the ding saying clothes are done, are you REALLY ABSOLUTELY 100% SURE that it’s never ever going to accidentally turn the knob on the oven instead? Or press the phone buttons, or pick up the cat and put it in the dryer? Or knock over the vase of flowers onto the electrical socket?

I think robots will need to be MUCH smarter before most people start getting comfy with them touching their shit.