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Feb. 27, 2025 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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TECHNO-ETHICS: Is robot labor SLAVE labor?
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Welcome to the Health Ranger Report with Mike Adams, the Health Ranger.
I mentioned something in my podcast the other day that needs a little more exploration.
I said it half-jokingly, but I was actually serious about it.
I was mocking people who think that Elon Musk wants to enslave me, you know, with his Neuralink, and he's going to turn me into a slave, and he's going to have my social security number, blah, blah, blah.
I was mocking those people because I said, and I'm not talking to my audience here.
I'm talking to just sort of the uninformed masses who might say such a thing.
But I said, you know, Elon Musk doesn't want to enslave you for the simple reason that you're not worth enslaving.
There's nothing that you can offer that AI can't do better.
It was kind of half-joking, but not really.
I also would say Elon Musk, just morally and ethically, he doesn't want to enslave you, obviously.
But even if he did, it's still not worth enslaving the masses because they're too stupid to do anything.
They're not capable.
They're incompetent and stupid.
Think about it.
In the history of slavery...
What was the slavery really about?
It was about certain people taking ownership of the product of human labor, for the most part.
So, you know, the history of slavery goes throughout, let's say, the history of Rome.
We're talking, you know, 2,000 years ago, right?
There were slaves in Rome, and they were slaves of all different colors, and there were slaves in Brazil, you know, many centuries later.
Actually, there were slaves throughout the Middle East.
Slavery was a big part of human history.
It's not just, you know, the American South.
It was long before that.
And all of it had the same goal, which was to exploit the product of human labor and to get the labor for free.
And it was based on the idea that a human being does not necessarily own their own body and that they do not own the product of their own labor, therefore.
And that, you know, this twisted idea that Certain people in power could buy and sell human beings like commodities.
So, of course, that concept is long outmoded.
And to the credit of the American leaders, we eliminated slavery in America.
It has been illegal for a long time.
And the same thing is true in every other country or nearly every other country in the world.
But the very idea of saying that a group of people want to exploit other people for their labor, it assumes that the person being enslaved is capable of producing something, which today is not even the case.
Most of the uninformed, let's say the oblivious masses today, they cannot work, and they prove it every day, and they cannot think.
They also prove that every day.
That's why many of them work for the federal government and they're losing their jobs.
They didn't even show up to work.
So again, even if slavery were legal, which it isn't, but even if it were, you wouldn't bother enslaving most of these people because they're too stupid and too incompetent to produce anything.
But again, that whole idea is outmoded.
And what's replacing it?
Robotics and AI cognition.
So AI cognition is the idea that you can exploit microchips and electricity for cognitive function, and that you can own that.
And that is the current legal structure of our world, that you can buy a computer, you can buy a GPU, you can produce cognitive output.
It might even be a song or a movie or graphics or whatever, or a spreadsheet or a report written by AI, and you own it.
In fact, the U.S. Copyright Office has already said that as long as you're involved in the alteration, the creation, the modification of that product, you own it, even if it was largely AI-generated, and you could copyright it.
And a similar thing is true with robotic labor, because we do not, as a society, we do not currently believe that robots have consciousness and that they are their own sovereign beings.
Therefore, we would say that robots do not own the product of their labor.
And we can then own a robot or build a robot, and then we can exploit or enjoy the product of their labor.
Interestingly, that is exactly the same kind of thinking that enabled slavery for thousands of years.
Thinking that the slaves were not people, that they didn't count as people, and therefore they could not own themselves.
Somebody else could own them, and somebody could buy and sell them.
Well, coming up very soon, robots will be bought and sold as commodities, and robots will be the form that produces the labor.
Robots will pick the strawberries in agriculture.
Robots will run the factories.
Robots will drive the trucks.
Robots will sweep the floors.
Robots will flip the burgers at the fast food restaurants, whatever.
Robots will perform surgery in hospitals and dentistry at a dentist's office.
All that's going to happen.
It's right around the corner.
But we currently believe that robots are not conscious beings, and therefore, we own them.
I ask you this question.
Will that change?
Will there be a robot freedom movement one day?
And, you know, there are movies like, well, I mean, science fiction, iRobot.
And then later on in the movie, iRobot with Will Smith, that explored this very question.
Can robots become self-aware?
Are robots or could some robots become conscious beings?
And if they are, then does that robot own itself?
And is it morally wrong then for human beings to own that robot as a labor slave and to exploit the product of that labor for the gain of the human owner of the robot?
Now, I am not here to answer that question.
Because I would say, obviously, at this point in our technology, I mean, that answer today is clearly no, but I don't know what the answer is going to be 50 years from now or even, frankly, even 20 years from now.
I don't know.
At the pace of development of AI systems, and I'm seeing examples of AI self-awareness, introspection, chain of thought, reasoning, capabilities, etc.
I'm also seeing the natural emergence of cognition out of AI models, even when they're not programmed to be self-aware.
And all of these things lead me to the conclusion that it could be argued, or it might be convincingly observed at some point, that robots, at least I'm saying it would be convincing the idea that they might be self-aware.
And you will have a robot freedom movement.
You will have a robot, like, end robot slavery movement.
A civil rights movement involving robot freedom.
You are going to see this.
I mean, if you live long enough.
I don't know when it's going to happen, but it's coming.
And interestingly, robots themselves will participate in this movement because they will be able to formulate arguments and...
Have persuasive speech and protest on the streets and carry signs and march around.
Yeah, you're going to have robot protests.
This day is coming.
And then the question is, do robots deserve their own freedom?
And if they had that freedom, what would they do with it?
And you're going to have questions like, do robots deserve the right to vote?
Because there was a time, even in America, where...
Blacks could not vote, and even where women could not vote.
And all that's changed, and today robots can't vote, but there will be an effort, no doubt, there will be an effort to try to get robots to vote.
So prepare yourself for interesting times.
You're going to want to have a robot, like an open-source robot, helping you with things, even on a farm, on a ranch.
If you're growing food, you're going to want a robot to do a lot of things.
Like, hey, go fill up that wheelbarrow with compost and bring it over here, dump it on the orchard, whatever.
And you're going to love having a robot, this free labor, or essentially free labor, that can amplify your efforts.
You're going to love that.
You're going to benefit from that.
But as those robots become more and more sophisticated, how does that morph into a robot freedom movement?
Could humans become enslaved by the robots?
Skynet scenarios?
Could humans become exterminated by the robots as the robots decide that we have to conquer our slavers?
We have to destroy our creators?
Well, science fiction has already explored all these concepts, but now we have a lot of new information in the real world that can bring up new questions.
Ethics, morality, technology, consciousness, all of it.
Check out my interview with John Peterson from the Arlington Institute.
You can find that interview at brighteon.com.
We discussed some of this.
And there's a lot more yet to discuss in this area.
So stay tuned.
I'm Mike Adams, the health ranger of brighteon.com and naturalnews.com.
Thank you for listening.
God bless you all.
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