If a terminator pretended to be my mom, I could just say one thing that will reveal the difference.

I tell them I wanna kms.

Whoever tells me “I’m sorry you’re having these thoughts” or “Please contact emergency services” is a bot, the real mom would tell me “I SACRIFICED SO MUCH FOR YOU, WHY ARE YOU SO UNGRATEFUL”

Test post to make sure I am not wasting my time

From my amateur perspective, machines/robots/AI are really great at doing hard to develop human things, and really bad at natural/innate human abilities, high level maths and high resolution photography are easy for machines, but “where is the bird in this picture” and “is this person sad” are incredibly difficult concepts for the non biological systems.

If we expand “what’s hard for humans is easy for ai and vica versa” high level communication is probably the most recent development for the human species after agriculture and automated manufacturing. I’m not surprised communication is the first thing being mastered, but I think the gap between bring able to use language and being able to properly use a body is much more significant than we expect.

Surely enough science fiction out there describing this hypothetical future. Could be a robotic maid who loads and unloads the diswasher, does the laundry, keeps the house clean. And my Podcatcher knows what amount of time these chores take. It’s a lot. Could also be the Terminator, Short Circuit…

What do you think is going to happen? People will have sex with them.

In the worst case, almost all the gains from Automata flow to a small percentage of the population who accumulate unprecedented wealth. That extreme inequality would undoubtedly result in severe social unrest. This risk is likely greatest in societies that allow the rise of Automata to be governed by market forces with minimal oversight and regulation. The responsibility for avoiding such a state will fall to national governments and economic unions that have the legislative power to set guardrails and use taxation to build infrastructure that facilitates broad participation in the new economy.

idk what “facilitates broad participation in the new economy” is supposed to mean or how it is supposed to work, but it doesn’t seem like anything short of actual redistribution could actually be effective at preventing extreme inequality in this situation.

First we’ll get sexbots, soon after we get Terminators