"we" are allowing our corporate masters to create. Think of the possibilities....

With autonomous robots, that is no longer a problem.

Well, the "lucky" ones, anyway.

I truly believe that DRONES are where we need to focus, cause they are not only NOW but more and diversely perverse with each friggin' hour! Let's not get distracted, as these DRONES are the largest threat to international relations, peace, and civility the earth has ever seen. It's like the invention of gunpowder on friggin' crack! And we ain't even talkin' bout the corporations use of these new "tools" of deceit, spying, invasion of privacy & safety...oh Mama, ya ain't seen nuttin' yet...but ya will.

About a decade ago a retired general was being interviewed. He said then we were about a decade away from T-100s I think that is the model of the original terminator. Not covered in skin. Just a metal robot that carried weapons into combat.

Next will be self correcting autonomous robots who learn. A lot like new email programs, spell check, and personalized ads on the internet.

Software will aid the operator more and more until the operator is no longer necessary.

The race is on.

As resources dwindle and environmental destruction leads to food shortages, the push for this technology to guard the 1% will increase.

The wealthy create robots that are sentient beings to protect themselves from the masses.

How long before a sentient being sees that it is wrong to oppress so many so that so few can have so much.

They'd probably be better off leaving them on remote control.

How many hundreds of thousands of workers are needed to convert raw minerals into, say, an iPhone?

Or mine the coal for conventional electric energy. The robots will have to be powered by something.

Wouldn't it be tragic if the unwashed masses attacked and the wealthy couldn't defend themselves because the long logistical tail required to have a robot army had decayed.

is deteriorating linearly or even geometrically. I see the possibility that there might be a step-function along the line. For example, we could have an event that kills the oceans. That may happen before the robots are ready to function w/o us.

about killer robots. Not the ground based versions anyway.
They aren't going to be "terminators"
They would be relatively easy to overcome with low tech countermeasures I would think.

such as Terminator or Matrix.

was the wedgie to end all wedgies.

nookular.

over worries like this. But once much, much more powerful computers were MADE overseas, that backstop disappeared.