Steve Wozniak: Robots Will Make Us Their Pets

Apple’s co-founder: We’re all going to be robots’ pets one day

by Benjamin Snyder     @WriterSnyder     JUNE 25, 2015, 12:23 PM EDT 

Apple AAPL -0.46% co-founder Steve Wozniak thinks we’re all probably going to become robots’ pets.

Speaking at a recent technology conference, Wozniak said that at first the thought of artificially intelligent beings in charge of everything scared him. But now it’s a comforting thought.

Fast forward hundreds of years to when robots are in charge. At that time, humans will probably be treated in a similar fashion to dogs, Wozniak said during an event at the Freescale Technology Forum 2015 in Austin, Texas.

“It’s actually going to turn out really good for humans,” he added. “And it will be hundreds of years down the stream before [artificially intelligent beings would] even have the ability.”

“They’ll be so smart by then that they’ll know they have to keep nature, and humans are part of nature,” he continued. “So I got over my fear that we’d be replaced by computers.”

Wozniak believes robots will helps us because we’re the “gods originally.”

More like animals in a zoo surely ?  If the motivation is preservation of humans as a part of nature.

And even if the robots did treat us like dogs, a lot of us treat dogs...really really horribly.  And if they treated us the way the more 'humane' in society treat dogs, they would still be...restricting our population, neutering us to control our breeding, restricting our movements, controlling out interaction with other humans, strictly controlling our diets, and euthanising us when we got sick or old.  Awesome future you've got mapped out for us there, Woz !

And the 'we're the "gods originally"' stuff is just wishful thinking, as is the rest of it.

What Wozniak really needs to conquer his existential angst, and what this is a form of, is religion.  In this case, it's one involving the fetishisation & worship of technology, and the faith in technology always being there for us, always leading to a brighter future.  A common, but often disappointing faith.

I'd suggest maybe...Buddhism instead ?