«Everyone should keep an eye out for automation,» Muhlbaum says, «but if there is a lesson to be learned from these lists, it's that education can help people adapt to digitization /
robotization of jobs.»
Globalization and, especially,
robotization of manufacturing are hollowing out and leaving behind large swaths of our countries.
Robotization is a natural sequel to dehumanization: A pornographic culture is already falling for «sexbots,» and employers who treat factory workers as disposable will think nothing of replacing them with machines.
«For they know not what they do: Study on
the robotization of office, service professions.»
In Japan, China, and increasingly in the US, a real robot hype can be observed — in the US and Japan almost half, in the UK around a third of today's occupations are at risk of being replaced by robots / in the process of
robotization.
The Humanization of Robots and
the Robotization of the Human Person, Holy See, November 2017.
«The Terminator» is clearly science fiction, but it speaks to a deep intuition that
the robotization of warfare is a slippery slope — the endpoint of which can neither be predicted nor fully controlled.
The seminar was chaired by the Permanent Representative of France to the Conference on Disarmament, Ambassador Jean - Hugues Simon - Michel, who in his opening remarks described the concern over fully autonomous weapons systems or the «
robotization» of the battlefield as part of an «evolution» from digitalization of the battlefield in 1990s to the introduction of armed drones in the 2000s and onwards.