On Silicon Valley’s couch working on automation and artificial intelligence trauma induced by Hollywood.

Automation, in conjunction with artificial intelligence are poised to make tasks a lot easier -cut off human labour in the manufacturing industry too.

Simple replacements of human effort are noticeable with sliding doors at a five-star hotel that open up as you approach them, the door man is obsolete.

Complex replacements are apparent with australian mines employing computer programmed drilling machines, likewise, the miner is on the verge of extinction.

Could these replacements, placing droves of people into unemployment reason enough for hollywood to wage war on automation and artificial intelligence?

I watched the first Terminator movie and its sequels, which were hits, justified,

because they had an action star casting in the form of Arnold Schwarzenegger — a hit
himself. Distancing oneself from the decent macho-oriented action — it passes The Bechdel Test, it is relatively easy to register subtle paranoia of artificial intelligence induced by

the movies. Artificial intelligence here is portrayed as the ultimate threat against humanity, as exclusively a weapon, that a cyborg — half-human, half-machine is sorely capable of redeeming the human race by ending Skynet — the artificial intelligence.

I, Robot. A movie casting will smith as a robophobic police detective, manages to plant distrust of the automation-artificial intelligence matrimony within civil positions, which are not limited to households, but also office work spaces. this movie blatantly demonises the aid of robots within households, on the premise that they may override the

three laws that govern them; a robot may not injure a human being or, allow them to come to harm, a robot must obey orders given by humans, and a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the first and second laws.

Thank you Silicon Valley for being the therapist.

There are a lot of these references in which hollywood — which happens to

subconsciously shape a majority of world perspective blasts automation and artificial intelligence. Yes, automation and artificial intelligence are creating a surplus in human work force, but this does not really warrant the hatred if Karl Marx’s theory of how

capitalism which fuels technology has a tendency of creating surpluses is applicable.

With that said, the Silicon Valley and most people concerned with technology are doing a great job easing people into the automated and artificially intelligent world. apart from automated machines used in mass production lines — car assembly lines and such, they have programmed some household friendly tools that can be used for day to day

household tasks like, switching smart lights on and off, making your favourite coffee beverage, mowing lawns, and a lot more other trivialities. Introduction of automation and artificial as cute and nifty tools that simplify mundane tasks is really pacifying, hopefully the calm before the storm — before bad guys integrate the two in instruments of destruction.