The Facts
Within a decade, 39% of household chores could be completed by robots, according to research published in the journal PLOS ONE on Wednesday.
Researchers surveyed 65 artificial intelligence (AI) experts across the UK and Japan. The responses showed that grocery shopping is the chore most likely to be automated while child care is the least likely.
The Spin
Narrative A
Humans who yearn for more leisure time will benefit from these robotic technologies, which will be able to do housework, and eventually become so personalized they’ll require little human direction. Interactive toys will also enhance childhood education. Assuming ways could be devised to avoid invasions of privacy and cybersecurity breaches, consumer robots will make people’s lives much better.
Narrative B
Introducing robots into everyday life is a slippery slope, and could change humanity forever. Humans will grow dependent on robots, reduce interactions with other humans, and it will be difficult to return to life before robots. We could be headed to a hybrid society, where we live and work with robots in an uneven dependency.
