Prorobotism
Prorobotism is a philosophy encouraging the production of objects and services by advanced robots with the aim of freeing humans from tedious and repetitive physical or mental tasks in the first instance, and then from all forms of paid work in the long term, thanks to the intelligent and systematic development of robotics.[1]
Principles
Prorobotism advocates the massive and systematic development of robotics and artificial intelligence in order to replace men and women in professional or domestic tasks that are perceived as unwanted or undesirable and mentally or physically demanding or even dangerous (mine-clearing robots, underwater robots, robots exposed to radiation, etc.). The psychological, social, economic and scientific consequences are multiple.
From a psychological and social point of view, people would thus become free to choose their life, interests or profession independently of material or financial constraints. Thus freed from work, man will be able to devote himself fully to his passions without any restrictions such as science, exploration, art, games, sport, philosophy or spirituality.[1]
Economically, the long-term goal is to allow the emergence of a post-scarcity society, capable of generating all or part of the goods, services and information for free or virtually free. This type of economy would free humans from the work for wages that is necessary to sustain a biological body in a capitalist society (purchase of food, clothes, drugs etc.).
In science, the widespread use of robots allows the automation of laboratory tasks, experiments, and obtaining essential data on events taking place in extreme conditions or in inaccessible environments such as space with space probes.
Etymology
The term prorobotism was first mentioned in books on virtual reality and psychology.[2] It results from the combination of the Latin prefix pro- ("for"), the term robot created in 1920 by the Czech writer Karel Čapek to denote an android built by a scientist and capable of doing all the work normally performed by a man, and the suffix -ism used to form a noun corresponding to a doctrine, dogma, ideology, or theory, whether religious, political, or scientific.
Literature and Futurism
In the fourth century BC, Aristotle wrote in Politics: "If the shuttles wove by themselves, if the plectrum played the zither by itself, the entrepreneurs would do without workers, and the masters without slaves".[3]
See also
- Robotics
- Post-scarcity economy
- Automation
- Artificial intelligence
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Malbos, Éric; Oppenheimer, Rodolphe (2020-11-12) (in fr). Psychothérapie et réalité virtuelle: Anxiété, TOC, phobies et addictions. Odile Jacob. ISBN 978-2-7381-5099-8. https://books.google.com/books?id=nhoIEAAAQBAJ&dq=psychoth%C3%A9rapie+et+r%C3%A9alit%C3%A9+virtuelle&pg=PT2.
- ↑ Malbos, Eric; Oppenheimer, Rodolphe; Lançon, Christophe (2017) (in fr). Se libérer des troubles anxieux par la réalité virtuelle. Eyrolles. ISBN 978-2-212-56695-6. https://books.google.com/books?id=Q-9DDwAAQBAJ&dq=se+lib%C3%A9rer+des+troubles+anxieux+par+la+r%C3%A9alit%C3%A9+virtuelle&pg=PP1.
- ↑ Simpson, Peter L. Phillips (2000-11-09) (in en). The Politics of Aristotle. Univ of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-9900-7. https://books.google.com/books?id=5l3qCQAAQBAJ&dq=aristotle+politics&pg=PR7.
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