In his new book, released about 3 weeks ago, "Rule of the Robots: How Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Everything," the American writer Martin Ford, author of the book, says that "Robots will not change some things or A lot of things in our lives, but will change everything in the literal sense of the word."

If you have a smartphone, you have artificial intelligence in your pocket, and it is impossible to avoid artificial intelligence on the Internet, and it may already change everything, from how doctors diagnose disease, to how you interact with friends or read the news.

But Martin Ford argues in "Robots Rule" that the real revolution is not yet to come, we are only in its early foregrounds.

Machines are coming

In the New York Times bestselling book, Ford offers us an astonishing vision of the very near future, arguing that “artificial intelligence is a uniquely powerful technology that changes every aspect of human life for better or worse depending on how it is used, For example, advanced science can be applied by machines, as well as solving complex problems in molecular biology that humans cannot do, and artificial intelligence can also help us combat climate change or predict the next pandemic and how to deal with it.

These machines also have the ability to cause serious harm, such as their ability to deep fake that cannot be detected with audio, video and video that is generated by artificial intelligence of events and facts that never occurred, and this intelligence may be exploited to cause chaos and disturbances around the world, or It may be exploited by authoritarian regimes with unprecedented mechanisms of espionage and social control, and AI can be deeply biased, learning from us, nurturing and perpetuating fanatic and extremist attitudes.

The writer asserts that "machines are coming, and they will not stop, and we all need to know what this means if we want humanity to thrive in the 21st century, and the rule of robots is the basic evidence for all of that; both artificial intelligence and the future of our economy, politics and our lives."

By 2025, employers will divide their work equally between humans and machines (Al-Jazeera)

In Singapore, robots are patrolling to monitor the population

When you visit Singapore, you may come across patrols of new robots responsible for monitoring the population and monitoring any "unwanted social behavior" of passersby, as the French newspaper "Leparisien" reported in a recent report.

The newspaper said that these robots are called "Xavier", and they are equipped with 7 cameras that can detect whether you have parked your bike or car incorrectly, or if you smoke in a non-smoking area, or did not respect the rules of spacing. social.

According to Michael Lim, project manager for these surveillance robots, these machines are a new weapon to reduce security problems. "If a robot is present and something happens, people in the control room will know about it and can see what's going on," he says.

On the other hand, this new technology has drawn criticism from human rights defenders, who see it as a violation of civil liberties.

Our guards when we sleep

At a press conference held by Amazon a while ago, the company demonstrated a 20-pound autonomous dog-like robot called “Astro” with large cartoon eyes on its tablet face, and the robot uses voice recognition software, cameras, artificial intelligence, mapping technology and facial recognition sensors during You move him from one room to another in the house, and he can also take live video, and learn your habit and everything about you by constantly monitoring you and keeping him at your comfort, as CNN recently reported.

Amazon has announced that its vision for the future of home security includes having drones hovering over your roof, outdoor cameras that monitor potential intruders, and cute robots patrolling everywhere in and around your home.

Amazon also announced a subscription service called "Virtual Security Guard", where this digital guard will work through special cameras to analyze live broadcasts from these cameras to ensure the security of your home and family, and can activate the two-way feature to communicate with visitors As well as activating the siren, and communicating with policemen and emergency services when needed.

A recent study by the World Economic Forum: The rate of reliance on machines in all types of jobs will rise to 52% by 2025 (Al-Jazeera)

Job theft or problem solving?

According to a recently published World Economic Forum study, the rate of automation in all types of jobs will rise to 52% by 2025. The study found that robots will eliminate about 85 million jobs in medium and large-sized companies in the next five years.

The study found that half of the workers who retain their roles in the next five years will have to learn new skills, and that by 2025 employers will divide their work equally between humans and machines, as Al Jazeera Net reported earlier this year.

But does this mean that robots will steal our jobs and our jobs?

The answer is not easy. Robots will also provide solutions to many labor problems in the world.

In the agricultural sector, for example, farm owners in Britain suffered last summer from a shortage of workers to harvest their crops, and this led to the rotting of many crops in the fields because there were no workers to pick them, and here robots have the solution, they can harvest these fields quickly and efficiently, and that As the Financial Times recently reported.

In the industrial sector, factories suffered from a significant shortage of labor during the pandemic, and a large number of them turned as a result to automation and the use of robots to do work, and many factories in Britain are seeking a complete transformation towards relying on machines to perform work, and a new report issued by Lux Research expects Most manufacturing tasks will be automated by 2030, the newspaper reported.

There are many economic sectors that are turning to automation and reliance on robots and artificial intelligence today, such as banking, tourism, travel, transportation, and others.

The transformation has begun and will never stop... It's a new world coming and we have to be prepared.