Eldercare has been quite dystopian here for quite some time. You don't need robots to be dystopian, rather just the casual indifference of a paperclip-maximizing bureaucracy. I can't read the article, but it seems like these robots at least move around and interact rather than merely being an automated process that automatically checks off boxes like "patient turned" and "bed cleaned". So they would appear to be a step up from the current absurd staffing ratios.
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-granted-patent-for-ai-l...
Its staffed with minimum wage workers who are in perilous conditions, with no support, time or backup. They are cleaning shit a piss all day long, and being shouted at for being foreign by the demented.
Robots might make it a little less terrible.
In advanced societies of course, but we have few and unfortunate people travel from far and wide to reach those services.
Do you think that your current resolve is correct for everyone around you, and should be generally mandated?
I agree to a reluctance to rely upon others, in the face of infirmity, but will I have the courage to forego that reliance in euthasia? I don't know.
thunderbong•1h ago