In the 1960s television show, “Lost in Space”, a young Will Robinson was often accompanied by a robot whose most memorable lines from the show were “Danger Will Robinson” and “that does not compute.” Wouldn’t it be nice to have a robot to warn you of immanent danger or let you know when an idea you have doesn’t make sense? Roads have signs that tell us to slow down when a dangerous curve is ahead. Deadly liquids have warning labels on them to keep us from accidently killing ourselves or others. Everywhere there are signs to help us live safer and healthier lives. The question is, “how well do we heed the signs?”
Just think, what if your robot had said, “that does not compute” before you went into unnecessary debt which sent you into financial slavery. What if your robot had cried out, “danger, danger” before you entered that last dysfunctional relationship? What if your robot had been able to show you the consequences of those words spoken, or things done, which hurt someone you loved? I suggest that we are amazingly more intelligent than our artificial intelligence. So perhaps the voice from within has been trying to warn us all along. Perhaps we have relied on our artificial intelligence for so long that we are losing our ability to use our natural senses and intelligence.
Do you hear that voice within saying that it is time to discipline ourselves for success, heighten our senses, and give our robots a little time off?