Frances Tracy C.

Pasicolan
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BS Management Third Year

STS 40 D (MTh 2:30

I Robot, Reaction Paper

Advanced automation and robotics are not far from happening. Its happening Technology like
machines, specifically automation and robotics, are designed and created to do things easily and
fast. Automation and robotics are programmed to reduce error or any unnecessary movements that
may cause delay and disrupt the smooth flow of the operations. Just like in the movie, where almost
everything is touch screened or voice activated. In addition, robots can be helpful in dangerous
situation. Like when a robot saved Spooner instead of the girl. Though robotics and automation are
logically programmed, they dont have emotions that made them have no conscience. For instance,
automated machines used to count votes during election were invented to reduce time, increase
accuracy and avoid any miscalculations errors. Human operations such as human tallying if not
addressed are vulnerable to human interventions such as changing the actual with their desired
data and/or keeping the data that leads to corruption. Though automation and robotics increase
efficiency and effectiveness of the processes or operations, to some extent, these machines replace
human works. Thus, machines become the substitute for employment. However, automation and
robotics can be controlled by human. Its hard to say if the advantages of automation and robotics
outweigh its disadvantages because there will always be pros and cons. And if the one that
outweighs the other, its not because the automation and robotics is good or bad but because of
how we created or programmed them for.
Automation and robotics doesnt necessarily put us all at risk because they accompany us in
work, play and entertain. Since these automation and robotics are created and programmed by
humans, it has its own vulnerabilities. Even if there are laws that recognize the rights of humans and
its limits, we cannot overlook the fact that humans can commit crimes. In the movie, there are laws
for robots such as, Law I: A robot may nt injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human
being to come to harm; Law II: A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where
such orders would conflict with the first law; Law III: A robot must protect its own existence as long
as such protection does not conflict with the first or second law. We all know that laws have
loopholes. Just as any human can break any law, can robots do the same? Though as presented in
the movie, robots have been really helpful, human beings have become reliant. Some are scared of
these robots. While others applaud with the existence and functionality of automation and robotics,
some are still cynical, that is, they have trust issues with robots. They are scared of what robots are
capable of. They are also scared that robots make take over humans, that is, robots may eradicate
humans. And lastly, some are scared of robots because robots like any mechanical machine have
not conscience. Whats scary is how we humans design our robots. For example, Sonny who look
alike one of the NS-5s have two positronic operating core (i.e., brains) that made him more
human and he is capable of not following the rules that govern other robots if he chooses too.
Thus, he can commit a crime if a human ordered him to do so but his human side, his conscience,
made him safer and reliable. For, Sonny was created by Dr. Lanning to liberate the robots. In
addition, operating system such as VIKI (Virtual Interactive Kinetic Intelligence) may be a
revolutionary invention that integrates and systematically organize and distribute data. However, like
humans, making this operating system or control system so smart like VIKI maybe threat to human
existence because when automation or robotics get a lot of data, they will look for new data until
they are almost everywhere, controlling the whole society and other technologies. If human logic
has vulnerabilities, so does the fast and powerful brain of VIKI. No ones logic is purely undeniable
because everything is questionable.