The real risk is not “AI becoming intelligent”, but low-friction automation creating massive downstream quality, security, and maintenance debt. Robotics is different precisely because the physical world still imposes discipline: things must work, safely and repeatedly, under real constraints. That may make robotics one of the healthier frontiers of AI — slower, but more accountable.
The real risk is not “AI becoming intelligent”, but low-friction automation creating massive downstream quality, security, and maintenance debt. Robotics is different precisely because the physical world still imposes discipline: things must work, safely and repeatedly, under real constraints. That may make robotics one of the healthier frontiers of AI — slower, but more accountable.
Totally agree - the risk has nothing to do with intelligence, just the creation of too much low quality noise in all our systems.
Your point re the physical world imposing discipline is spot on. It's the friction that allows people to fix problems.