Experts are concerned about the continuing advancement of machines that they will be superior to our own species. Machines are used to simplify our lives. Through the programming of a computer inside of a machine, we can construct machine to do just that. A machine could potentially have a “conscious”, if we wanted it to. If simplifying our lives means building a machine that could solve our problems, “because machine-made decisions will bring better results than man-made ones,” then we could potentially give the reigns to a machine that will have the consciousness to make our decisions and solve our problems (Joy).
The fear that “we will gradually replace ourselves with our robotic technology, achieving near immortality by downloading our consciousnesses” should not be as overstated as some Luddites and science fiction writers imagine will happen. Scientists and programmers have control over what they can train machines to do, but only if they can manage to predict and prepare for what could go wrong. As seen with the use of antibiotics and rapid mutations of viruses, scientist cannot always predict all that can go wrong (Joy).
Therefore, because of the fear that we will end up competing with machines or heavily relying on machines to the point of life-or-death dependence, these machines with a consciousness could be but probably won’t be built. Science will not build a machine that have a conscious that is more advanced than our own, because after all, the goal of science and technology is for beneficial purposes, to simplify, and not complicate our lives.
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