In the film, Blade Runner there is a corporation called the Tyrell corporation.The Tyrell Corporation is very powerful corporation that creates replicants that are meant to model after humans to carry out tasks that humans don’t want to. The work that they perform is carried out in off-world colonies that are on other planets. These actions from the corporation blur the lines between humans and artificial intelligence. Morals and ethics are also called into question when it comes to the replicants and their duties. They are aware that they posses human qualities but aren’t granted the same freedoms that humans are.
Elon Musk is a very wealthy and powerful man with ambitious plans.In recent media Elon Musks’ Optimus robot has been making headlines.The robot has the build of a human but still looks very much like a robot. It can do lots of things that humans can. The response from viewers was mostly fear and worry about what this means for the future. Elon Musk has created Space X as well as the the Optimus robot which is associated with the Tesla brand. Musk has plans to colonize mars in the future. His Space X company has already made strides to make human travel to space easy and accessible. It is possible that he will use the Optimus robots in the space travel/colonization plan.
In the contemporary world Musk and his creations are the closest thing we have to the Tyrell corporation. I find it ironic how we have a real-life example of a corporation that creates human-like robots while also having plans to colonize another planet. For that reason it leads me to conclude that in the future I think it is likely that corporations will move in the direction of relying on robots to complete tasks. If a robot can do the grunt work then that is most likely what they’ll be doing. The only thing I don’t foresee happening is robots designed for grunt work having huma- like emotions and believing that they are human. I think that that would be unnecessary and problematic. I’m interested to see if the colonization will really happen and what the Optimus robots will actually do.
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