Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

We are responsible for gadgets that we have. We are responsible for anything we create. Imagine the future where you can literally teach a gadget that you like, pet a device necessary exactly just for you? Does not sound that crazy today with all the hype about machine learning and AI. Quite a prophetic idea that the future of programming would be more like training a dog has been introduced to me by Bjørn Karmann with his really fascinating ideas and devices. It looks more than plausible to me. We can start wondering about some future droids designed solely with our imagination making our life as comfy as heaven in disney cartoons. However, I like thrillers. Imagine an autonomous car maliciously hacked by its owner or even some random guy on the net hits someone to death. Who would be blamed? How would the future police officers investigate those cases?

Moreover, the rise of all kind of 3D printing and other solid parts creation technologies has brought us into an era where you can create anything in your own house or garage. You don’t even have to leave it as you can order everything you need online. Yeah, crazy homemade scientist story, boring and as possible as our universe in multiverse. But we should admit that it is attainable today to produce some sort of autonomous weapon in a garage with even mild technical skills. Any government would rightly concern this as terrorism. Though, it seems to me that in the future with the increase of tech level the formal legislature would be more accurate and discerning in this type of crimes. I guess that probable law would state that “you are responsible for any damage caused by anything that you have created”.

There is another deep moral side in discourse about access to technologies and humanism, but it should be a topic for a much wider text.