86058 - Transcription: The danger of Chinese mass production of humanoid robots

N. Lygeros
Translated from the Greek Athina Kehagias

A lot of people are talking about artificial intelligence but in a somewhat artificial manner or a somewhat ablative one. In actual fact things have changed. We now see that China’s associated ministry is revealing that it wants to mass-produce humanoid robots and believes that the change they will bring about is even more powerful than that which occurred with the smart phones. Therefore, if you think about it in this manner you may say, a China which is a communist country and wants to mass produce humanoid robots, I remind those who don’t remember, that robot means work, labor in Czech, when it was coined by the first who thought of it and at least in science fiction to create them, and that of course is not Asimov. If we think about it in this manner we comprehend that it is a new method for China, to produce products so as to affect the entire Humanity and we ought to therefore bear in mind that if this development exists, since they consider that already in 2025 all these will be fruitful, we need to understand what that means for us. We have seen Chinese products on many levels, we have already seen and endured the Chinese market, but now just imagine something similar at the level of humanoid robots. Then we understand that it is probably good to wake up and understand the data of artificial intelligence in a little more practical manner, so that the present does not surprise us. Because the next reality is very close and if we don’t examine it strategically and at the level of high strategy at that, then we can let China play a game for which we with difficulty will find corrective actions if she has moved ahead and we have let her go too much forward undisturbed. Because China’s aim is crystal clear, it is purely expansionist, and in this manner it wants to promote what she believes in, and we the democratic countries, not the People’s Democratic countries, ought to understand that there is a danger and this danger is no longer theoretical.