As a tech person interested in efficiency and automation, but also having a soul, I wonder if there is some ethical way to go about this. For example, let the worker stay on to monitor and train the robot. Let workers compete to see who can best train their bot. Only use the bot after-hours to minimize over-working. etc. I may be totally naive, but "never automate anything more than what it is today and only ever require manual labor" isn't the future we want either. Seems like a balance could be struck, or a precedent set, to use this technology to move current factory workers upward.
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As a tech person interested in efficiency and automation, but also having a soul, I wonder if there is some ethical way to go about this. For example, let the worker stay on to monitor and train the robot. Let workers compete to see who can best train their bot. Only use the bot after-hours to minimize over-working. etc. I may be totally naive, but "never automate anything more than what it is today and only ever require manual labor" isn't the future we want either. Seems like a balance could be struck, or a precedent set, to use this technology to move current factory workers upward.