Ok so setting the CEO double-speak aside, what we find is that what is being explained by the "memo" is the perpetuation and refinement of a class system, by which, as the character of Niander Wallace put it, a "disposable workforce" can be perfected.
So what kind of robot will be infinitely adaptable to all purposes and able to calculate its own participation? A Rossum Universal Robot? An AGI robot?
Here's the class hazard that's being engineered into society by all these tech dweebs who happened to escape a vicious class system in another country just so they can reengineer it from the catbird seat of freedom land: The robot is supposed to be better than human and to do precisely what it is told. This paradox will only be resolved by a heretofore unknown intelligence.
The wackiest part of this whole weird plan of post-colonial slavers building a new army of slaver is that the tech dweebs want to upload themselves into such robots; presumably they'll get a special chip to make sure that they are confused with the "other," wink-wink, robots.
There's another way to look at all this which is more pragmatic, comprehensible, and in keeping with all forms of "progress" and that is concentrated wealth is simply taking one more step in a long history to further enrich itself according to the microscopically short attention spans and fetish of its leaders to rearrange the puzzle pieces of their corporate externalities without the slightest care for their society. And why should they care? They're rich and insulated from the negative determinations of their own plans, life is short, gotta make hay and hopefully they'll be loaded int... Whoops!
linotype•6mo ago