Robots can take over some of our jobs. But some things only humans can do (MBA Managerial Economics course)
New York Times. discuss your views of the articles under the guidance of following questions: • do you agree that we are moving toward a new era which might be called second industrial revolution
in which almost everything could (or would) be done by non-conscious intelligent beings (such as robots)? do you think human labor might eventually be obsolete? • as an economist, would you be in
favor of replacing conscious intelligent beings with non-conscious ones? • Do you agree that self-directed autonomous robo-soldiers will pose existential problem to humanity? • Do you agree that
there will always be something which can be done by human only? would that be sufficient to busy majority of people? • how human life would look like when non-conscious intelligent beings with
cognitive abilities could do almost everything for us? what would you do if you happen to live in such a world? would that make life dull and boring or creative and exciting? • How about idle
people? do you think that we could satisfy idle human beings with something like pleasure pills and computer games? • Are you optimistic or pessimistic about the future in which we might delegate
our works to robo-soldiers, robo-teachers, robo-servants, robo-workers, etc.? why?