Campa R Still Think Robots Can’t Do Your Job 2018

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If we ask common people if we need conscious computers and robots, the answer would probably be mixed, with – I guess – a majority against the idea. Personally, I am not prejudicial against the idea, but I think we should also take into account the possibility that conscious Artificial Intelligence may emerge from a serendipitous discovery, in an unplanned way and regardless of its social necessity.
In fact, as the development of Artificial Intelligence progresses, we may ask whether serendipity – intended as the capability of making fortuitous discoveries, or the ability to find something while we are looking for something else – will be a virtue we share with our mechanical children, or whether it will be a factor – maybe THE factor – that continues to differentiate humans from intelligent machines. In any case, we should consider the role of serendipity when we reflect and speculate about the future of work