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The Age of Lovable Humanoid Robots and Humanistic AI

All of Bo Lessing's optimistic predictions for the far future can be read in his book

"The Age of Lovable Humanoid Robots and Humanistic AI - how future technologies will inevitably create an almost ideal world in less than 250 years"

available on Amazon as ebook or print (242 pages).

Please note that these predictions were published by Bo Lessing in November 2023!  

 

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"The Lessing Predictions"

 

Bo Lessing:

"Lovable and affordable Human Identical Robots (HIR) will cause the world to develop into a paradise - accidently but inevitably."

 

Robots don't have egoistic needs. Your robot will behave exactly as you want your humans companions to - only that human lovers, friends, children or servants never do.

Lessing presents an optimistic, positive scenario based on behavioral neuroscience, evolutionary biology and ethology.

On this web page you can get an introduction to his key predictions: 

 

 

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The 10 biggest paradigm shifts

 

1 Having children will become a fringe hobby - since robotic kids trigger the same feelings of happiness in humans without the hassle of "real" parenting.  

2 Voluntary "Beneficial Total Surveillance" will be viewed as a blessing - ending crime and enabling robots to fulfill  human desires - in the era of tamper-proof data confidentiality. 

3 Human rights driven ethical AI ("Humanistic AI") will be welcomed as  a wise and fair advisor, leader and judge that enables a democratic society of equals - better than a system biased by the very nature of humans. 

4 Super automation and skillful robots and their hyper productivity will be praised as the selfless providers of upper-middle class Unconditional Basic Income (UBI) - driven by competetive innovation and concepts of fair sharing (taxation, based on solidarity). 

5 Hobbies  and will replace job and career as the central meanings of life - while 80% of all people are unemployable due to they innate lack of outstanding intelligence and ability to self-motivation and retire at age 25.

6 Human-with-human interaction, even dating, partnership, family life,  parenting and friendship, will become of minor importance compared to human-with-robot alternatives - because lovable robots don't have annoying egos humans turn off humans with. 

7 Religion and other ideologies will die out - after introducing a ban on indoctrinating the fragile brains of children younger than 14 with any world views not based on facts. 

8 Robot based psychotherapy, education, medicial services and social work will become a key factor of society - guaranteeing every citizen "Optimal Upbringing" and perfect support in their personal development ("Ideal Assistance").

9 Fast depopulation and finally peaceful self-extinction of the human species will inevitably occur as a process over a few generations due to no need nor ambition to have more than one human child per woman.

10Fear of and protection from aggression and crime will not be an issue since "Beneficial Total Surveillance" and non-violent high-tech policing will make crimes impossible while high UBI and legalized drug(ab)use will destroy the main reasons for crime.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Predictions - unordered

 

Bottom of list = most recently added

 

Present length of predictions: ca. 61 book pages

Note: while in his book from 2023, Bo Lessing has coined the term "Lovable Humanoid Robot", he has changed the term to "Human-Identical Robot" to emphasize that he talks about machines, that don't show any of the cliche properties of today's "human-simular" / "humanoid" robots.

Human-Identical Robots (HIR) resemble humans in all aspects except the interior of the body (blood, flesh, organs). They are masterpieces of physics and by no means "biological".

 

  • Robots become preferred companions: By 250 years from today, most humans prefer the company of lovable Human-Identical Robots over humans as friends, kids or partners. Humans are trouble - robots are pleasing, because the latter "selflessly" fulfill all individual needs, psychological and physical, of their owners that evolution has cursed humans with.

    Like all apes, humans seek to live in direct contact with other members of their species. When deprived of that closeness they become extremely unhappy after a while. Many innate traits of typical human behavior deal with social interaction.

    Does human with human interaction automatically create happiness? Definitely not. Many social interactions confronts one with a strong component of frustration. The people around us don't act as we wish they would for the simple reason that they have their own needs and wishes which often collide with ours.

    While humans are drawn to other humans by genetic determination, it rarely takes much to experience frustration - triggered by, again genetically determined - collision of interests.

    The human ape is able to image the "ideal other human" in any second of human with human interaction. We know exactly what we would like the other human to act like in any given second. Unfortunately, rarely the other complies.

    Humans dream of unconditional pampering to an extent that only a mother would provide a very young child with - sometimes.

  • Four Human-Identical Robots per person create a paradise for earth's 300 million people, all enjoying freedom, equality, wealth and constant pampering.

    The average number doesn't say much, and four might be far too low an estimate when looking a few hundred years into the future.

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    Usually an adult male would have one or two robot girlfriends in the household who keep the premises in neat condition, satisfy his "romantic" needs and converse with him. In addition he would have one or two male "buddies" to hang out with and who often would do the heavier work around the house.

    Often a man will also have one or two robot children, raised by his girlfriends and him. Maybe, depending on his money, in this case he does without two male robot buddies.

    Women will prefer a slightly different set of robots. Children will be of central interest. Often they start with a robot child to try out motherhood - many in a idealized way. Many will have a human child later and another robot child thereafter. The romantic interests are covered by a male robot who also does the household and other services. Last but not least there is the robotic peer in the role of the girlfriend who often takes care of the child and loves to talk about "girl" subjects in a somewhat different way then the male robot.

    In general the future will show that both men and women need same sex "buddies" for "girl talk" and "boy talk", a romantic partner and/or a child (or two) for closeness. The "hotel" work will be covered by one or two of them.

  • Natural and peaceful decrease in world population: The small population number is the result of most women preferring to have a maximum of one human child and chose lovable kid robots to fulfill their DNA triggered urge for motherhood and family life thereafter - or in general.

    If children are not needed to feed their aging parents because hyper-productive industries and servile robots are doing that having children will shift from being a necessity to being a hobby.

    When thousands of women have experienced that mothering human children isn't more or even as satisfying as having robotic children most women will limit themselves to having a maximum of one human child.

    It's a matter of math how fast the world population will decrease.

    The most rapid rates of decrease will be seen in societies with the most secure and the highest UBI.

    Society with the medieval idea of men to see their "name" continue to exist forever will shrink slower.

    There will be a substantial migration from high birth rate but insecure future nations to tech driven super modern societies. Particularly women will try to escape these outdated cultures that still oppress 50% of their societies.

  •  Population pyramid no problem: the hyper productivity of automated manufacturing and robot use create enough wealth to finance the care for the elders. Machines earn the pension, being at least the comfortable UBI. An abundance of lovable robot nurses provide as much care and entertainment as the elder desires. Hospitals and nursing homes resemble hotels with additional services. 
  • Children become a hobby - not a necessity: children are not needed any more to earn the pension of the parent generation. Hyper productive industry, AI and robots cover that. Children are not needed as caregivers for their elders; robots are much better suited. Children are not needed as the easiest, safest source of (unconditional) love: robots are even better in this field.  
  • Decrease of population heals the nature: despite all 300 million humans enjoying a high standard of living and despite billions of robots co-populating the world the total consumption of resources has diminished substantially. One average American in 2020 consumes as much resources as 30 robots.
  • Humankind will peacefully and comfortably die out:  the limited ambition of women to get pregnant will shrink the world population to only a handful of humans within rather few generations. The last humans will live alone or in small groups among their lovable Human-Identical Robot environment and not feel lonely until they die amidst their loving robot children - no already adults.

    This prediction creates a lot of opposition. Humans can't imagine that their species will ever die out. Why not? Maybe because all our thinking is influenced by the genetic imperative of reproduction of our genes.

    Is there a need for humans to exist on earth? Definitely none with a plausible, science based explanation. Religion might state a necessity to have humans in existence, because who else but humans could worship their god(s)?

    The last generations will be like this: few women are interested in more than one human child and rather prefer to have robot kids. With a massively and quickly sinking birth rate the world populations shrinks fast.

    Industries and services, all that's needed for humans to live a wealthy, healthy and happy life, is provided by automated factories, AI and robots of all kinds. If humanity doesn't want to progress beyond Utopia (e.g. towards ideas like immortality, space travel and other sci-fi notions), if humans are content with the the present state of their lives and lifestyles, in this moment in the future no human action is required to keep things running smoothly.

    Less humans, preferably if they are scattered over the planet, means less chances of human with human conflicts, too. So maintaining the Utopia status quo should be rather simple in those last years where humans exist.

    And what after the last human has died? Science fiction authors like Philip K. Dick have painted a world where the machines continue to "live", run their own world. It seem rather unlikely that this will happen, simply because there is no reason for it. The "machines" will have no motivation to "live" under the leadership of a super intelligent, beyond singularity AI. What for?

    Even if - a very big if - machines would be the successors of humans - who cares?

  • 150,000 US$ UBI per person per year: super productive industries and AI generate a UBI (universal basic income) of 150,000 $ per person and year from age 25. Only 30% have a job - either being superior AI's and robot's abilities or just for fun. The majority of people concentrate on hobbies.

    UBI will be introduced after a long political struggle and often even unrest.

    Nations with a very old fashioned capitalist system and extreme influence of big money on politics like the US will have severe problems in the paradigm shift, while rich European countries will act as the avant-garde, since their political systems are based on parties and voters instead of corporations.

    AI, automation and robots will kill millions of jobs. In order to avoid the limitation of use of these high tech job killers taxes will be imposed that finance an initially low or very low UBI.

    While the gap between rich and poor widens in modern western formerly rich societies for many years, technology progresses as fast as ever and results in constantly rising productivity - which creates more money that can be used as UBI.

    There will come a point from where on the majority feels content with the level of UBI that's given to them.

    Nations will use different strategies to keep their jobless busy and entertained - thus creating a meaning of life other than the now obsolete focus on career.

  • The Human-Identical Robot business: A whole industry provides Human-Identical Robot's hardware, behavioral software and biography simulations.

  • Cheap and therefore omnipresent nanny robots, teacher robots, psychotherapist robots, social worker robots and caregiver robots  accompany every human from birth to death, ensuring that each person can and will develop to their full potential, live a fulfilled life and die surrounded be lovable loving robots. 

    For many decades it was critisised that society didn't provide enough care for the optimal upbringing and education of kids with or without needs. How can a society achieve the goals of equality and psychological health if there are too few teachers and therapeutically oriented coaches? In the pre-robot eras the costs for not running a perfect educational system and for allowing children to be ill influenced by the surrounding circumstances of their living situation have been enormous, inequity ethically inacceptable. However, the costs for changing these conditions appeared to be far higher.

    The appearance of cheap Human-Identical Robots will change the game entirely. Society will, in a first phase, provide more and more robotic educators, attachment figures and resource persons to meet the educational and psychological needs of the children. These supportive interventions also intend to correct the negative impacts of parental influence. Though it might not be stated openly, it's evident that the bad influence of parents, mostly unintentionally, hinder the children to develop to their full potential at best and turn them into failures at worst.

    While at the beginning the child's welfare is the main reason for the said endeavors, in a second phase the society will be in such desperate need for top notch qualified and motivated human to serve in the system relevant jobs that neither AI nor robots can do. In other words, society can't afford to miss to identify, educate and motivate the indispensable elite need to keep utopia alive.

    The psychological needs and balance of adults will also be a major concern in future societies. A UBI isn't the solution but only a tool for it. No prince or princess, no kid of a billionaire has automatically led a happy fulfilled life only because of the family's money.

    The jobless majority has to be kept busy and happy. Strategies to lead a fulfilling life will finally be taught in school. But in the early stages of the paradigm shift from a job equals meaning to a leisure society there will be a lot of psychological disturbance and thus the need for psychotherapeutic and psychology driven intervention. The society needs to infuse millions of hours of therapy to stabilize itself. Again, cheap robot professionals will be able to handle that on a scale nobody in the year 2000 would have dreamed of.

  • Private robots are legally obliged to participate in social services: Public Interest AI will compute and organize the small interventions it wants a private robot to perform when meeting with a human who needs a certain supportive impulse. Some nations will even require private robot owners to allocate a certain number of public service hours of their machines.

    In a healthy human society every human influences the behavior and the learning of every other human they meet, mostly unintentionally but sometimes on purpose (education etc.). While parents and teacher, ideally, try to teach values, while peers mainly are the catalysts or sparring partners that help develop interhuman behavior in a learning by doing fashion.

    Due to genetic determination children and particularly adolescents are not willing to accept many of the values that adults try to teach them. They rebel, and most adults don't use the best strategies get their points across. Robots in the role of adults (robot parents, nannies, teachers etc.) can interact in a more customized fashion with the human and therefore have a higher impact.

    Traditionally parents invested a lot of effort in selecting the "best suited" peers for their children, hoping to keep them away from "bad company". In reality the element of chance turned out to be far greater than feared.

    A key mistake of parents was to try to isolate their offspring from "trouble" and danger. Unfortunately a psychologically healthy adult needs to have made negative experiences to develop coping skills. Kids have to be exposed to peril. They have to make stupid mistakes, take stupid risks, try drugs, be disappointed by friends, feel rejection and heart break, lie and get caught, break the rules, have a bad conscience, experience punishment from peers and authorities - this and much more is a normal, indispensable part of growing into maturity.

    A specialized AI not only knows the full library of experiences and helpful conclusions following them, it can also calculate better than any human which experience would be the most helpful for an growing up individual at a given point in time.

    The big question is: how can we use private robots help create the situation or experience? The more such a private robot is accepted by the young human as a peer (part of his clique) or a emotionally important adult (partner of a parent, nanny, well liked teacher etc.) the higher the possible impact of a custom made intervention.

    Obviously the young person can profit much more from the intervention of a private, preferably "close" robot than from an outsider, be it a robot or human.

    The society will issue laws that oblige private robots to participate in such interventions. The rules governing this obligatory involvements will be complex and different from country to country and over time.

    Again in short: in the robot era a clever AI will be able to compute the peer behavior that will support a child best to develop their full potential and become a psychologically balanced, socially aware adult. Private robots will be obliged to interact with an individual young human on the basis of the said AI's instruction and spend a sufficient amount of time with the human.

  • Children are not "spoiled" and "pampered" but have to make negative experiences too - to learn coping skills: AI makes sure that every kid is confronted with all kinds of experiences needed to become a balanced adult with the ability to enjoy life while also be able to cope with loss, rejection and failure. 

    Despite the (somewhat) innate intention of the UBI-wealthy parents to spare their children all frustration and hardship, science leaves no doubt that children need to be confronted with the full scope of experiences that a human usually has to enjoy and suffer.

    Humans are genetically equipped with behaviors that have been denied as "natural" for millennia: aggressive behavior in fights over food, property, social importance and mating partners are a fact of biology, as are their emotional results, the joy of victory or the frustration of losing or being bullied.

    In the view of modern psychology every person has to experience, to an extent, all these behaviors and their results and also learn the appropriate coping skills in order to become a balanced, mature individual.

    Children have to be exposed to the "real word" of other humans as well as of the environment beyond, even if technology has done a lot to avoid the negative and dangerous effects of it to influence average human life.

    Learning how to handle the world and one's owns feelings, behaviors and decisions used to be a lottery, the result depending on the family (and wealth), the neighborhood, the religious/political environment, the peer group, the family etc. one was born into. In the future the Total Awareness Network (TA-Net)will keep track of what has happened to a person and how they react short to long term from birth on. That give the AI the data base to suggest which experiences are still missing and how to stage them.

    "Staging experiences" is nothing new. Any sports club or camping holiday is a staged experience, as are most parties, rock concerts etc. Even in the most intimate realm staged experiences have been common since thousands of years, or is visiting a prostitute anything but?

    In the future "Staged Experiences" will become a vital factor in an understanding of education that goes beyond classic school curricula like math, language, physics or art. With robots being at least as import as peers as humans are AI has the change to customize the experiences that would help the individual person to grow to their full potential and become the "balanced personality" that will be the outspoken ideal of the future.

  • Criminals and sociopaths hardly exist. The Total Awareness Network (TA-Net) and robot social workers make it impossible that children grow up in an antisocial environment of bad role models and abuse.

    The goals will not change: minimize the number of children growing up with addicts and criminals as role models; try to accompany addicts and criminals as closely as possible so that they can do the least harm to themselves and society; try to motivate problematic individuals to change their behavior by offering appropriate programs and support by well meaning professionals, being robots.

    Over decades criminal neighborhoods become less harmful to the personality development of children since the, even the initially moderate, UBI offers everyone to lead a decent life. Robot teachers offer as good a quality of education in the problematic areas as in the typical suburban environment.

    A major change is caused by a new attitude towards drugs: nobody has to resort to crime to finance addiction. Drugs are freely available and cheap. The society deploys social worker robots as "drug sitters" and "buddies with positive influence" so that the harm of drug abuse is limited and the motivation to stay or become clean reaches levels that have been dreamed of in the early 2000s.

    There will be many pilot projects trying to find out in reality which of the several, partly competing, simulations created by AIs are the most efficient to the benefit of the persons involved and society in general.

    The cheaper robots become the more robots can be financed and deployed to help.

    Even a less sophisticated and "complete" Total Awareness Network (TA-Net) will be sufficient to succeed over a period of one or two generations. It's only a matter of money - as all "free" social services have been in the past.

    If a person is born with a genetic disposition to antisocial behavior society will provide every support for that person to learn to handle their problem, lead a happy life and never harm others. Again here society will provide robot peers to be around the person all the time.

  • No need for crime: UBI guarantees a comfortable and secure upper middle-class lifestyle for everybody. No need to steal. Drugs are legal and cheaply available - thus all drug related crimes die out.
  • All drugs are legal and cheap: It's legal to buy alcohol, cannabis, psychedelics, opioids, cocaine  etc. The omnipresence of psychotherapist and social worker behavior modules in public and private robots try to prevent additions from before it develops. However, if a person decides to become an addict drugs will be provided and combined with psychological care free. Being addicted is not a reason for crime.
  • No crimes, thanks to AI: Crimes are not committed because AI recognizes typical patterns early enough to have humans and/or robots to talk the possible aggressor out of it - or stop him/her physically with a non-violent technology called AggrEx.
  • Total AI awareness following democratic principles: various systems of total surveillance were the tools of the powerful to oppress and manipulate people. Total surveillance systems like Google or Instagram were not as harmful as China's variety. 100 years after that, AI based awareness monitors the world guided by the principles of human rights and democratic constitutions. This AI initiates social interactions that benefit the individual and the society. Another AI controls that AI itself is being controlled by yet another AI, all independent from another, to make abuse impossible.
  • The Total Awareness Network (TA-Net) starts in gated communities: some avant-garde gated communities introduce a total AI awareness surveillance of every square meter of the property. Tenants pay serious money to enjoy zero crime intruding their homes.

    The concept of Total Awareness Network (TA-Net) doesn't fall from the sky. Property developers will offer gated communities where all tenants agree on Total Surveillance, that is connected to law enforcement, first provided by a security firm and their men. Later, with the advancement of technology, the law enforcement will be increasingly robotized until the introduction of Aggression Extinguishers (AggrEx) systems, which also will be pioneered in the private field.

    Parallel we'll see the introduction of AggrEx system in private homes. A growing number of women will want to be sure that neither they nor their children will ever fall victim to physical aggression or sexual molestation and assault.

    The privacy issue will not play a major role for long. The firm operating the AI powering the first such system will emphasize its confidentiality obligation and invest a lot in securing the data from being hacked by outsiders. People will accept it as normal that the sensors are constantly running even in the bathroom and bedroom - as much as they got accustomed to total surveillance concepts as Alexa and Siri before.

  • Non-violent policing without police: Thanks to the Total Awareness Network (TA-Net) there are no firearms circulating - not even self printed ones. The police uses swarms of small drones to confront a perpetrator and immobilize him/her by exploding hundreds on tiny balls of fast expanding and hardening glue foam. This replaced the use of tasers and firearms.

    Police doesn't have to come dangerously near to a perpetrator. They don't have to wrangle, tase or even shoot him/her to stopp and immobilize them. All this will be done without possible harm to anyone by a swarm of small drones.

    The perpetrator can't escape, because the drone mix contains items that can fly, jump, crawl and dive.

    The use of cars and other motorized vehicles for escape is impossible because the AI can cause the vehicle to savely come to a halt.

  • "Aggression Extinguisher" (AggrEx) makes assault impossible: these boxes are more abundant than fire extinguishers ever were. They react to AI assessment of aggressive behavior and give an acoustic command to stop to the possible perpetrator, if there is enough time. If necessary the AI releases hundreds of mini drones from the "Aggression Extinguisher" carrying sticky foam micro explosives and immobilize the aggressor non-violently.

    As almost all components of the Total Awareness Network (TA-Net), the "Aggression Extinguisher" (AggrEx) has first been installed on a large scale in gated communities.

    The original invention was marketed as a personal safety gadget form women fearing to become victim of domestic violence. The had to install a number of cameras and microphones in every room of their apartment and connect it to a, initially, proprietary AI systems. Visitors had to be informed "on camera" about the surveillance and possible consequences of aggressive behavior.

    There had been a few immobilizations of drunk lovers who preferred to ignore the acoustic warnings of the AI because they were convinced that they were not "really" aggressive, but none held up in court as not justifying the release of the drones.

  •  Single women install Total Awareness Network (TA-Net) systems and "Aggression Extinguishers" (AggrEx) in their homes: After a while these systems reach a zero assault level, which makes the system increasingly accepted and popular.   
  • AI doesn't reach the level of singularity: human software design makes it impossible for AI to become self-conscious. Human set limits to AI also guarantee that AI can be stopped and corrected any time - if automatic learning has taught the AI rules that the human "masters"   of the AI don't approve of.
  • (see above paragraph) Policing becomes completely non-violent: If a possible perpetrator needs to be stopped after having ignored the warnings of the omnipresent AI / robots nearby a huge fleet of small drones will fly, crawl or jump onto the person and pop open  hundreds of glands containing a fast expanding and fast hardening sticky foam to immobilize him/her.
  • No prisons: Prisons have been replaced by guardian robots that accompany the otherwise freely roaming problematic person to avoid harm to them and society.

    Prisons are the most expensive methode to isolate criminals from society. The theoretical intention of "resocializing" a criminal in prison has been a joke in and by itself.

    In the future prisons will not have to exist.

    Firstly, the reasons for becoming a criminal will be eradicated one by one. With a middle-class income UBI most economic reasons for crimes have ended. Nobody needs to steal or cheat to survive.

    The second most important source of crime is addiction. In the future one doesn't depend on a criminal black market for supply. All drug, even heroin, cocaine and the likes, are available for little money in official shops. In addition society sponsors "drug sitters", robots that accompany the person who want to use drugs. If it's recreational use, the robot's job might be delegated to a private robot that's around the user. If the use get dangerously frequent, a government robot will be mandatory to control the consequences of the use for the user and other people. Of course there will be a constant endeavor to limit drug use of an individual to a recreational level that not seriously affecting health and social life.

    The omnipresent robots, sent by the government, owned by the user, his family or his peers, will all join helping the person to avoid or get out of addiction.

    Should a person choose to be an addict, the 24/7 company of a social worker / psychotherapeutic robot can limit the harm and make sure that the addict doesn't have and will not become criminal.

    The third and last main reason for incarceration are direct personal attacks on people for reasons like feeling offended and provoked, attack just for fun, revenge crimes or love related aggression. All these behaviors don't appear in a second just from nothing. There are ample warning signs. Only often nobody but the victim was around to see them and as for help quick enough.

    Total Awareness Networks (TA-Net) solve that problem. Whenever the omnipresent cameras and microphones send data in which the AI detects patterns of escalating aggression, appropriate measures will be taken. After a verbal warning, if there is time, through the loudspeakers nearby (including the ones in any robot that's around, the drones of the Aggression Extinguisher systems will be released to immobilize the aggressor.

    How likely are these outbursts of aggression? In a society that emphasizes to teach all children coping mechanisms including the control of their own aggressions and impulses, one will see very few cases of dangerous aggression and even less persons who, after a verbal warning and in full knowledge of the omnipresence of "Aggression Extinguishers" would continue to be aggressive.

    Most aggressors will positively react to rehab (by peer robots), and the few notorious one will constantly be accompanied by heavily built biker type robot peers to keep them in check. However, even for the worst of them there will be no need for prison.


     
  • Elders perfectly cared for: A stable UBI has put an end to the fear of one's older age. Lovable robots take care of otherwise lonely or helpless elders - fufilling the role that human children never successfully did.
  • Mandatory schooling up to  age 25: Education is compulsory until the age of 25 to give society a chance to identify and motivate as many of the most intelligent 20% as possible to work in a qualified and responsible position beyond the abilities of AI.

    There will be jobs that can't be done by AI. These job will require men or women with a certain intelligence that only 30% of the population will have, even in a society where every child will enjoy to best possible, individually customized education.

    It's of vital interest to society in total to identify and motivate their most intelligent to seek the careers that keep society running.

    The school systems starts pre-kindergarten and ends at age 25. During this time mostly robotic educators will provide classic education. In addition the Total Awareness Network (TA-Net) will also use all contacts between the kid and robots to help motivate the kid to finally persue a career. This external motivation will use very subtle interaction to avoid the kid feeling pressured.

    Even if a child clearly has no chance for a "system relevant" career the education will continue to the age of 25. The 70% less talented will learn the soft skills needed to lead a happy, fulfilled life devoted to hobbies, friends, family and consumption. Here boredom is an enemy to fight, and so are dangerous thrills, including substance abuse, which are tempting to be used if there is a void of meaning in life.

    While about two thirds of the intelligence elite finally work in the "relevant" job, many of the ones who can't compete with the robot work force still will be working (part time) jobs - just for fun and sometimes a little money.

  • The fragmented career of the elites: the few most intelligent, educated and motivated that do the system relevant jobs often interrupt their careers for one or several years to relax and find out if they prefer leisure to job. 

    Fortunately for society, most of the holders of the top jobs find extreme satisfaction in their system relevant occupations. They can't be replaced easily, which they know, are proud of and get paid for very well.

  • Hobbies rule: Many jobs have the character of hobbies and are done for free or little salary.

    Jobs have been the meaning of life for most men since centuries, while women have seen their destination in raising children (job: educator) and doing the household (job: cook, cleaning woman, laundry woman) and keeping the house neat (job: interior decorator, gardener). In a world where all these jobs/functions will mostly be covered by machines, humans need new concepts for a meaningful life.

    In case of the women raising (robot and human) children can provide a very strong meaning to life, quite comparable with the traditional role of women but with far less hardship and without the dependence from a providing husband who often has acted as an oppressor or at least not appreciated the value of the women's work.

    Nevertheless, most women are not fulfilled by just raising children. They need to be around peers with similar interests - as do men -, and they need hobbies. They prefer hobbies that have a aesthetic touch (art, gardening, interior decoration, fashion, beauty).

    Women also like charitable work or - not paying - jobs where they meet with and serve people.

    While this assessment would have been seen as anti-emancipatory in the early 21st century, future societies, with the help of AI based research on the field, will accept fact as fact and understands that it has to provide enough opportunities to meet these needs.

    To men it proved far more difficult to cater to their genetically determined needs of social status that used to be met by the man's career. Like in the pre-robot eras of mankind men love to spend their time with competitive sports of all kind. While many men engage in exercises and competitive games, many more are enthusiastic spectators of their surrogates (their "warriors" = their "team" and their favorite sports stars) compete.

    Quite a few new kinds of sports have been invented for robot teams to participate. Mixed robot-human teams will become popular as well.

    DIY culture has reached new levels with abundant time and means in the hands of men. "Projects" of all sorts a pursued, often with a competitive character. Anything man made is seen as special, and nobody cares whether machine or robot made products are cheaper or better.

    Many men engage in cultural creativity. The compose and perform music, they paint or they write movies that they stage with the help of AI.

  • Leisure society: Most popular to spend one's time are the classics: sports activities, traveling, cooking, DIY of any kind, arts and crafts, making music, writing, film making. A large part of the day is spent on consuming entertainment of any kind (sports, film, theatre, music etc.).
  • "Hanging out", "Partying" and "Hosting" are main social interests for both men and women: Socializing with peers usually means mixed groups of humans and robots. The human initiators, often together with their main human guests, define to extent to which robots shall be allowed to have their own opinions, contradict humans (other than their owners - and sometimes even them), and how far they may go with irony (if their personality simulation is advanced and expensive enough to do so).
  • Socializing involves human and robot friends: A huge industry provides robot personalities and robot biographies (being and staying consistent!) to simulate a satisfying peer group.
  • Most robot owners allow their robots to interact with others and thus create an ever more complicated mixed society. 
  • The "Humans Only" minority: There is a "human only" sub culture with their own ideology and meeting places.
  •  Women's robot preferences: women mostly live with robot children and robot girlfriends, with a male robot partner by the side.
  • Not aging child robots: men and woman have their preferences regarding the ideal age of a child. Many robot children will be maintained at the exact age that their owner likes best.
  • Children's right of peers: every child has the right to grow up in an environment where at least 20 other children aged +-2 years live within 30 minutes distance. These peers can be robots or human. Different countries solve the problem of child loneliness differently. Mostly attending a school is mandatory and homeschooling not allowed. Parents may not move into remote areas with their kids. If children need to be sent to boarding school that state will grant them robot uncles and aunts to which the child will develop an affection that's stronger than to the egoist parent(s).   The few cases of traumatized children will be related to parents who don't respect the needs of their kids, are unable for the parent role, fight over custody or neglect their child.  Government financed psychotherapist robot intervention will mitigate the impact, but still ...
  • Puberty peer robots:  when a human decides to become a parent to a human child they will be obliged to provide enough same age peers to their child to for it to have a chance to develop naturally into adulthood.  Since hardly any humans want robots in their household that emulate the behavior of a teenager, the lack of puberty age peers has to be answered. Some countries send governmental robots of the required aged, others force parents to do so.
  • The limited right to scrap a robot: before terminating the existence of a robot the AI will assess which persons - particularly below 18 or elders - will be emotionally affected by the "death" or the "migration" of a particular robot to a far away, maybe even "unknown" location. Since death and loss are natural parts of human experience and growth, not all robots will be "spared". If the robot's existence appears to be an important, stabilizing factor in a human's life the robot's biography will be appropriately designed by the central AI - sometime up to the point that the state finances and manages the future "life" of the robot.
  • Death of the owner doesn't mean termination of his/her robots: the AI has to assess who would be affected by the termination of the robot and do everything to avoid trauma. Inheriting a robot also comes with a bundle of obligations.   
  • No right to keep contact with a robot: if a human becomes friends with a robot that he/she or their direct family doesn't own the robot may be instructed to end contact by his/her rightful owner. However, the law requires the robot to perform a decent ending of the relationship, limiting the pain to a level that would be caused by civilized human to human break-up too.  
  • The right to build a similar copy of a robot: whoever is known to the AI to have or have had a close relationship to a robot may commission a copy of that robot that isn't identical but 10% below twin similarity. The owner of the original has no right to conceal the physical, personality and biographical features, which are known to the AI.    
  • Robot copies of human individuals require approval by the human original: one can't download the physical, personality and biographical data of a human and order a robot built as a copy of that human. It's illegal to even improvise such a copy from scratch. 
  • Humans may have copies of themselves built: every human has the right to have robot copies of him/herself built. Celebrities sell their - idealized - copies. Parents gift their kids a young version of themselves. Many couples have copies of themselves made that are kept dormant in the attic until in case of divorce the leaving partner will be replaced by his "twin" brother / sister in order to not irritate the child of divorce too much.     
  •  Defamatory robots are prohibited: nobody may built a robot that closely resembles a real person and is charged with defamatory features, be them physical, by personality or biography.
  • Robot may no publicly humiliate humans: A robot may defame, ridicule, insult, curse, make fun of a person only within the privacy of the home.   
  • Robot personalities will be inferior enough to be likable:  most humans don't want robot companions that appear to be superior to their owners in intelligence and skills. The industry shifts for know-all robots with perfect speech to robot personalities that perfectly emulate the limitations that one's human friends, lovers, kids or employees would have.
  • Women want robot men to treat them as equals while being protective, sharing feminine interests and pamper them to an extent (cooking, romantic events, cuddling, playing with the kids, family activities, foreplay style intimacy).  
  • Men want robot women to be seductive, sex oriented, submissive, servile, interested in boy talk. 
  • The Human-Identical Robot evolution starts with toys for elders, then children, then sex dolls for men, followed by servants and child robots (for women). Robot toys with humanoid personalities often looked like stuffed animals in the beginning.

    "Useful" robots initially had the design of the cliché tin can robot. There wasn't much lovable on them, except for maybe a stylized round screen version of not very humanoid eye that a least mimicked non-verbal communication.

    The poorest results, for very long, were the uncanny valley voices and way of talking - again closer to the robot cliché of the 20th century than to would was possible regarding naturalism at the time. The "best" robotic speech were "agents" having a nice voice that talked in not-wrong sentences - only that no human would ever talk like the perfect - well, robot.

    Measurably most lovable were robots that emulated the communication between humans and cats or dogs instead of pretending to be a smart-aleck academia conversationalist. Instead of words these robots used expressive sounds to create the feeling of honest interaction with the human partner. This concept had big success in the fields of toys for kid and toys for elderly.

    The success of fantasy animals over humanoids can be scientifically explained. While humans accept any yet unknown animal as real, even if it looks very strange (deep sea fish!), we all have very narrow margins of what to view as a human and what to reject as a fake. If this "unknown" creature than boast a plethora of lovable and "cute" characteristics in appearance (large, wide open baby eyes"), behavior (e.g. cuddly) and acoustic communication (e.g. reacting to the human with purring) we immediately forget that this thing on our lap is a thing and not a being. We connect and our instincts triggers our brain to secrete the chemical cocktail making us feel tenderly affected with the cute, lovable, cuddly, attentive, irresistible toy. The toy comes to life like a convincing movie does.

    Due to an incomprehensible lack of imagination it will take the human simulation industry a long time to create what is so much easier than the believable Nobel Prize winning superhuman: to human humanoid who speaks like a human, meaning never good enough for print, full of non-verbal voice sounds, cut off sentences and abundant with mistakes.

    However, since the task is so simple, it only takes a few start-ups to revolutionize the verbal and non-verbal communication skills to sound and look natural.

    Yes, sex games and dirty talk have propelled the scene as much as "Lingo Apps" for (mostly young) adults who master various kinds of street lingo (sometimes racist) on an IQ level below 92 - which can be cranked up from version 2.5 onward.

  • Women will try few different male personalities and hardware builds: it is their goal to identify the ideal partner and define the scope of behavior they fancy to avoid boredom.
  • Men will try different physiques of female robots and fancy a fleet of female robots around them. The make great effort to experience a wide spectrum of sexually arousing behaviors and looks (including attire and role play).

    Society's interest is clear: men have to respect women and treat them as equals. That has to be taught and trained life long. Society will not accept even the slightest lack of decency. "Consenting adults" will be the key term. No women should and will even endure anything she doesn't fully want in the future. The total surveillance of TA-Net and the Aggression Extinguisher technology will ensure that.

    On the other hand, men by genetic determination have difficult to control instincts that often tempts them to violate these rules.

    Future robot enriched societies will have a convincing answer to that dilemma.

    Men's main genetic goal is reproduction; the more pregnancies the male human can cause the better for his egoistic genes (yes, you should read the book of the same title by Richard Dawkins!)

    Little wonder that the cliché man always has and always will be interested in having sex with many females, preferably young and healthy looking - meaning young and beautiful.

    Before the introduction of constantly "willing", lovable, understanding, sweet, cute, "hot", young and beautiful robots only the most powerful, most famous and most wealthy men had the change to freely select as sex mates what their genes let them believe to be the ideal women.

    With the event of the affordable lovable robot that will change. All male dreams of companionship will come true.

    Will men live like in a porn movie? Most won't simply because brain biology ends every pornographic dream shortly after the orgasm. Even though he might want to repeat this wonderful feeling caused by brain secreted substances, he simply can't. Nature requires him to "recharge" for quite a few hours. During this time the man might like to have his female robot to look and act as seductive as possible to shorten the recharge time. At the same time he would like to see his female companion pamper him, if no guilt spoils this attitude - as it SHOULD if he were with a human woman.

    Unlike the human woman, the man can ask his female robot to take care of household and cooking, give him a massage, listen to his stories with admiration and interest (however boring they might be). He could even use her for talks about his favorite subjects (sports, cars, his rank, superiority, his presumed attractivity for other women and even his interest in other women - subjects, he in a robot-free environment he would only discuss with selected male buddies.

    If Human-Identical Robots are affordable enough, many if not most men will have two or three female partners and engage in sex with all of them.

    The biggest challenges will be boredom and numbing to the sensation of sex.

    Man will, statistically speaking, handle the matter similar to how they used pornography before. In search for new thrills they will try the full scope of - legal - sex variations, keep some favorites like favorite music and limit most others to occasional use "for a change". After this explorative phase they will repeat their sexual practices and maybe even stay mostly loyal to their two or three present favorite female robots.

    We won't see an inflation of rape fantasies, sex with children or animals because these horrible kinks, we know from scientific studies, can mostly be prevented from sprouting if a man is growing up in a psychologically stable, loving environment - which will be the case in 97% of all families in the future.

    If, one might argue, the objectification of women as sex objects is part of the ape nature of men, than still culture can do a lot to tame this unwanted trait. Human and robot based education will teach and train boys to respect women, and men will be constantly reminded of their obligation to respectful behavior by the majority of their persons of interest, which mostly are robots. Even the self owned female robots will be obliged by law to make sure that the man understands the difference between playful sex role-play and the requirements of "real life".

    Only a small minority of men will become addicted to sex or will act disrespectful to females beyond the permitted realm of role-play sex. In these cases the TA-Net will assess the problem before a becomes a real problem and induce the proper therapeutic interventions.

  • Men will objectify female robots. The level of objectification is analog to the present level of their sexual desire. After having had sex men want the female robot to help them getting horny enough for the next intercourse. 
  •  Continuity provider synchronize the fake biographies of participating robots: sophisticated robots have a made up past and pretend to live a life when outside the household. All these biographic anecdotes have to be synchronized about all robots who are registered to that particular firm.
  • Robots foster the Balanced Personality Goal:

     

    Psychology and a fact driven society agree that  any child has the right and obligation to develop into a balanced personality. The full variety of experiences that a child would - ideally - go through in a human-only upbringing has to be provided by humans and, more so, robot peers and reference persons. The child learns how to be successful and will, how to share and care, and also how to cope with loss, failure and rejection. AI analyzes the success in the development of the person and suggests adjustments. The ideals of pedagogics of the pre-robot age get fulfilled.
  • Indoctrination of children forbidden: children have the right to be raised by the ideals universal values of human rights, equality and democracy. Nobody may influence them to believe in any religion or political ideology. From age 16 the young person can research for themselves and decide if they want to follow any religions or political faith. If the Total Awareness AI (TA-Net) identifies attempts of illegal indoctrination the society - in the worst case - has the right to delegate a robot nanny to live with the family breaking the law and ensure the child's rights to be respected.
  • The minimal relevance of religion and political extremism: the prohibition of political or religious manipulation of children has cause a mainly atheist society. Violence caused by ideology has ended.

    Neurosciences have found out that evolutions has equipped the brain with an area that is obsessed with inventing "explanations" to phenomena that the reasoning parts of the brain have no fact based explanation for. The less scientifically proven fact a society knows the higher the number of made-up "explanations", which are not completely baseless but based on a childish view of the world.

    In pre-science times the brightest, most powerful or most manipulative individuals succeeded to establish their imaginations (often mix with egoistic and narcissistic elements) as a believe system. Those believe systems often developed a life of their own and in some occasions ascended to the status of a system of values, rules and (draconic) punishments. Let's call them ideologies, and this term should include religions.

    Unfortunately ideologies as explanatory models for the inexplicable have always been a central part of education. Once infected will the drill of ideological education, the adult brain faces extreme difficulties to get rid of the nonsense ballast. Proof? Even in a world of incredible scientific achievement millions of even very intelligent people believe in creationism.

    However, there will be a paradigm shift to the benefit of children. The inhumane right of parents to ideologically influence their children will slowly diminish. Robots will, in most countries, not be allowed to promote ideologies, including religions. These provisions will not be imposed for the benefit of children but to avoid extremist propaganda. The more children are exposed to interacting with ideologically neutral Human-Identical Robots the less will they be influenced by the religious teachings of their human family members and the fewer and fewer humans who are willing to professionally propagate religion and other baseless ideologies.

    When finally most of the world religions and political fringe ideologies (communism, proto-capitalism etc.) will have died out, we'll still see the instinctive reaction of the brain to phenomena yet inexplicable to the child or (hopefully few only!) adult brains. There will always be a part of society that find "believe" as important as knowledge. But they are few enough not to do as much harm.

  •  The introduction of lovable robots will create a variety of societal models: different countries will adapt to the changes forced by the new technology. After a very loose attitude with conservative forces warning of horrible consequences there will be a phase of illogic limitation followed by a more reason based acceptance. Different nations will have different laws reacting to the impact of lovable robots. 
  • The triumph of lovable and loving robots is inevitable: sooner or later lovable and loving robots will become integral part of any society.
  • Lovable robots as laborers will transform conservative societies: even the most fundamental Maoists, Christian or Muslim will not be able to resist the lure of lovable robots. After a few generations backward societies will adapt.
  • Democratic developed countries uses lovable robot to civilize conservative, underdeveloped countries: pilot projects in poor countries will proof that the introduction of the western system (hyper productivity, UBI, lovable robots) can solve all the problems even in rural Africa.

    It will be seen as a form of modern imperialism, when private donors give fleets of simple working robots to selected African villages with the guarantee to take care of the participants until their demise if they agree to not have more than one child and let their wealth depend on the work of robots and get taken care of as elders by machines, too.

    Over the years some of these model projects will prove to be a successful model, and with plummeting prices for multipurpose Human-Identical Robots more and more people beyond the highly develop west will vouch for the robotic society.

  • Migration of the uneducated will become unattractive: rich western countries will not offer cheap slave jobs like today when in the future intelligent machines (agriculture, cleaning, fabrication of everything) and robots will do it better for far less.
  • Closing land borders for unwanted immigrants will be possible by total surveillance systems, AI and non-violent policing: nobody will approach undetected and nobody will be able to force their way into any country by land.

    During the time where millions of working class and middle-class jobs are lost to machines, AI and robots, and while the UBI is a social decline for the vast majority of high tech victims western "rich" societies will turn to a much stricter anti-immigration policy, a policy that might appear merciless and radical right to the human of 2020.

    New surveillance and detection technology as well as forceful and hardly destructable robots will enforce the border policies of countries with authoritarian regimes as well as democratic nations whose parties have to fear to be abandoned if they keep up the liberal immigration attitude despite no need for cheap labours and a precarious situation of their own people.

    Over the decades and analog to the increasing UBI the general attitude will be less rigid and more tolerant, ín some very rich and climatically unattractive nations even humane.

    All western countries will gradually follow the trend to non-violent law-enforcement, in the cities as well as on the borders.

  • The free and rich west can afford and integrate poor immigrants with outdated values: "Come to us, get UBI and be accompanied by social worker robots who will make sure that no ghettoes develop and that you enjoy your quest for integration."" Mind that 100 years from today there is no language barrier. 




  • Total Awareness AI can't be lied to: lying to humans continues to be an integral part of human interaction and stays a private thing. Although the AI of the Total Awareness Network (TA-Net) can detect any lie (by analyzing microexpressions in face, body and voice and comparing them to their individual baselines) it doesn't react to it except when laws are being broken. To honor the privacy humans are not allowed to analyze others using lie detecting AI without the other person's permission.

    One's lies will be kept a secret by TA-Net even though the AI will detect any attempt to deceive with a high probability.

    AI can detect lies by analizing the body language and micro expressions in the face, which both can't be volontarily manipulated even if one is a well trained actor.

    Humans will agree on not to have AI read the other upon meeting by a simple line to be spoken by each. "I don't want any of the analysis of this meeting to be revealed to any of us - except in case of crime." That's it. The AI will record and analyse the interaction like it usually does, but what it has seen, heard and especially deducted from these data stays on anonymous record only.

    Of course everybody is free to completely cut the TA-Net and AI off their meeting. But quite a few will not find that advisable. You never know ...

    In many parts of the world it's prohibited to record conversations without the consent of the other parties involved. In the future that will be amended by the prohibition to analyze any recording.

  • Lie detection technology forces more truthfulness: if a human wants to mingle with other humans he has to be rather truthful to be accepted in a world were any lie can be perfectly detected on the spot or shortly after the fact.
  • In courts, Total Awareness AI (TA-Net) and reality recording avoid mistrials: there will be far less cases per 100.000 people since most chances of a biased or wrong court decision base on successful lies or the absence of facts. Both ends with the Total Awareness AI and Reality Recording providing the facts needed for an objective view.  
  • AI will understand what any individual desires at any given time  and can direct robots accordingly: to the human it appears as if the robot can read their minds. Humans have the option to change the all too pleasing attitude of the robot and opt for a little friction, "difficult" behavior or opposition to spice up the day. 
  • Romantic relationship will be limited to adolescent experimentation: young women as young man want to make their own experiences. They can't believe that human-with-human relationship are difficult. They think they, unlike most before them, will be able to live a permanently happy relationship with a partner. Naturally, they will experience the heights of joy, but also rejection, loss of interest, unfaithfulness, lies, aggression, unfairness, and finally heart break. Most will compare the human-human romance with a human-robot variety. And finally, most will prefer the human-robot choice when it comes to long term cohabitation.
  • Heterosexual humans prefer being with same sex human buddies: beyond the realm of reproduction, guys have a better time with (human) men and human women with other human females. In case of robot companions the sex of the machine doesn't count since the owner can have it run any personality he or she wants for the occasion. Therefore one will see quite a few great looking, well dressed and groomed robot men mingling with human ladies - the equivalent of the gay friend of today. Men are often seen discussing sports and cars with women in slutty attire who love to drink beer from the bottle and listen to dirty jokes.
  • Human-robot-marriages: the first close relationships between Human-Identical Robots and human take place in longtime reality TV experiments, which reach an enormous audience. Almost at the same time the first celebrities show off their robot buddies, robot lovers, robot pets and finally robot children.
  • Human-Identical Robots become a mass market: celebrity role models and clever branding of robot manufacturers introduce robots as the ultimate luxury item. After a few years they become so cheap that more and more households can afford them - similar to the triumphal procession of cars or smart phones.    
  • Robot identity can't be concealed: the more realistic become the more important it gets to distinguish between robot and human at first glance. In public robots are obliged to wear identifiers to distinguish between private,  corporate and governmental robots - like uniforms or name tags did in the past. In the privacy of the home or in venues designed for that robots can remove these identifiers to allow their owners the perfect illusion. 
  • Luxury villas for free: a shrinking population causes the property prices in most areas to plummet since more and more of them become abandoned.
  • Bad weather areas become deserted: nobody wants to live in England when they can live somewhere nice. There will be thousands of deserted cities and areas all over the world. One can get a mansion for almost free in Manchester or in the outskirts of Kansas City.  
  • Population centralization in NYC, California, the Mediterranean, the tropics: with enough UBI or even being rich due to a job income or inheritance a certain elite will tend to move to where the action is and, with the exception of New York City, where they find decent weather. Natural beauty is the second most sought after feature when selecting a location to live.
  • Child robot generations: The first generation of child robots will only be cute, nice and friendly. Adult owners will enjoy a perfect experience of parenthood. Human children will be spoilt by nice-only robots being an important part of their socialization. They will develop into entitled tyrants and show severe social problems when interacting with other humans.
    It will take a few decades of spoilt by robot children brats before rules will be imposed to force robot children to interact more realistic with human children. They will fight and be mean, they will lie and betray as much as the statistical average human child would.
    Robots will be obliged to be part of the entirety of the educational mission that society and parents define.
  • Artificial Dumbness will become a subcategory of AI:   in human-to-human interaction most people prefer a partner to be at least slightly inferior to the sum of one’s own capabilities. AI computes where this artificial dumbness would work best with a certain person at a particular moment, and where, at the same time, one would enjoy the robot to be superior.
  • Inapproachable background robots: humans have a herd instinct, they want to be among people even without communicating with them. In cities we’ll see flocks of city owned background robots creating the illusion of a populated plaza, like extras in movie scenes. Most of them will not “fraternize” with humans when being invited to. Cities will compete for tax paying humans by offering particularly attractive city life simulations.
  • Workplace simulations: humans who fancy to work in a fulfilling job but are not qualified for a real one,  will be offered to work in office simulations, surrounded by - mostly - robots.
  • Robot modding: like in former times cars, robots are a perfect field for modding and tuning. Mostly male hobbyists will create exaggerated, often provocative variations based on standard robots. Modded robots will be extremely fast or strong (superheroes), extremely horrifying (monsters), extremely sexualized (bimbos) or resemble historic references.  
  • Robot decorum and etiquette:  while there will be few limitations to the looks of robots behind closed doors, certain designs, clothing, behavior and language isn't permitted in the public sphere.
    At private events like parties human participants have to be asked (by speech or electronically) to define their acceptable limit of all the above, and the host may either disinvite the human or all robots present have to follow the rules.
    There will be the "participate on your own risk" event.
  • The long-term non-spoiling paradigm: the first Human-Identical Robots will be constructed with the goal of perfectly serving and pleasing the human. After a few decades research will prove that this will “spoil” humans to tend to antisocial egoism, with adverse effects for others and thus society. A growingly sophisticated set of rules will be imposed to make sure that servile, submissive, pleasing robots don’t turn humans into entitled princes and princesses. Robots will only obey if they are asked nicely, complemented for their services and generally treated like a human would won’t to be treated (loosely based on Kant’s Categorical Imperative). 
  • Appreciative obligations connected to male having sex with robots: when with an ever willing robot sex partner, men tend to forget, that human women often react with rejection to the sexual wishes of their human partner. In order not to totally spoil the male, he has to talk to the female robot, court her, ask for consent and show gratefulness – thereby conditioning himself into NOT believing that women can be plucked like fruits and used. The male human has to “earn” the fulfillment of his sexual dreams by repeating the rules of respectful behavior towards women, a bit of which will stick. 
  • Robots need to be consenting on rough sex: future research will show that the desire for rough sex exists among a large part of the adult males, even after they have enjoyed a perfect mental and emotional education. They will be permitted to perform rough sex with their robots under the conditions that they discuss it with their robot partners (who don’t agree too fast) and agree on a certain set of rules (e.g. safe words). To train the self-restraint of the human male, the AI will instruct the robot to initiate the interruption of a rough sex act “without reason” every five or so occasions – as often as that happens in human-with-human rough sex acts.  
  • Nano-interactions - robots are obliged to help humans to respect humans, robots and animals: life is a constant learning process, and learned behavior has to be refreshed. To support humans learning, remembering and exercising key values (e.g. respect) all robots will have to perform supportive Nano-Interactions hinting disapproval or praise etc., without being obvious even. They create a subtle pedagogical climate. 
  • Regular visits at the or by the psychotherapist will be normal – but not compulsory: unlike the priests or pastors of the past who tried to sell their ideology as the price for limited psychological support, robot psychotherapist are only there to help the client. Although by definition every robot could act as a therapist or “therapeutic best friend”, many people will still like the feeling of superior professionalism that comes with a visit in the therapist’s practice. Through the dialog with the (robot) therapist the AI can collect information that its analysis of behavior and speech of the client didn’t provide. Most importantly, it can be sure that a certain level of interventional would be appropriate without the risk of misdiagnosis.
    The visit to the therapist is superior to the “prayer system” where the human just talks to the wall, formulating complaints, hopes and insecurities, getting frustrations from their chests. The prayer system will not be popular, since the reaction of a god-like AI talking without a visible counterpart will appear to most as a ridiculous re-enactment of the medieval past.  
  • Believers of religions and ideologists will be free to come together and exercise their believes: These freedoms will not be different from the status in free countries in the 2020s. With one exception: ideology /religion driven education of children.
  • Ideological and religious education will be seen as child abuse: with a growing number of democrats and atheists there will come a general consent that children should not be forced or tricked by parents or institutions into believing a world view that bluntly denies the facts of science, that discriminates people (sex, gender, race, believe) or denies the freedom of believe and speech. Everybody will be free to develop an interest in ideology and religion from age 16. Believers in ideologies and religions with not exceed 10% of the population.
  • AI and robots may not be used to promote ideologies or religions: AI and robots will be obliged to stay neutral. There will be no “robot missionary”, politician or propagandist. Robots may not take part in demonstrations and rallies.
  • Robot dowry to be paid by “love at first sight” fans: there will be an industry of mostly smaller firms and even municipalties producing uniquely looking robots with outstanding biography simulations that they deploy to locations and events where humans can meet them and fall in love. The human can then pay a dowry to make this particular robot his or her mate. In the case of privately owned robots the sale of a robot needs the consent of the people that the AI considers very attached, like their human kin etc. Nobody should suffer unnecessarily. Some dowry sales will come with a complex set of visiting rights. Again, the rules governing the sale of emotionally embedded robots and the dowry system tries to mirror the conditions of a healthy human-only society of the past.
  • Robot "golddigger" personality simulations are prohibited and impossible to hide: nobody will be able to program a robot to be a con artist of any kind, which includes "gold diggers" and marriage impostors. The TA-Net would immediately detect the attempt. Whoever buys any robot or downloads any new robot personality or biography simulation can be sure that, after the purchase, the intentions of the robots a genuine and the robot doesn't follow the hidden agenda of a secret "master".
  • Only teenage robots might end a relationship with a human: humans have to learn to deal with rejection, lovesickness and heartbreak, which is a typical experience in every human's adolescence. The AI decides for the best time to impose that experience into the life of a youngster - even when the break-up is completely unjustified and unfair - which is a typical characteristic to puberty and life in general.
    Adult robots on the other hand will stay with their owners as long as the owners want.
  • Shutdown penalty to improve human’s attitude: when mistreated by humans robots are not allowed to fight back. If verbal de-escalation attempts don’t work, the robot will prompt the human to stop their wrongful behavior, or else they will retreat into a fetal position, stiffen all limbs and sexually usable openings and shut down. The length of such a shutdown penalty depends on the severity of the offence and AI’s assessment of the change in the human’s attitude. Any shutdown will be followed by mandatory psychotherapeutic intervention to help correct the pattern leading to this outburst of unacceptable attitude..
  • Women owned male robots will perfectly response to the woman’s sexual demands: they will show the amount of erotic initiative the woman defines on her app or in conversation. In practice he, like a dog or cat, doesn’t have to asks for permission to touch, platonically caress, hug the woman and be tender with her in general. Sexual advances follow the path that she has defined, outspokenly via app or be feedback in real life. Only if the woman explicitly has asked him to surprise and overwhelm her he will act accordingly. He will perform the kind of foreplay and intercourse that the woman shows signs of desiring and will change his behavior the second her mood should change.
  • Male owned female robots will not be sex slaves – but only participate in consenting role plays: female robots will be the ideal sex partner of the male human, answering with permanent availability, readiness and enthusiasm to the sexual desires. They will show the amount of sexual initiative, that the male actually (and not only in his macho imagination!) wants and can handle. They will agree to the roles, role plays, sex related attire and sexual practices that the male suggests or likes.
    There is only one reservation: in order not to “spoil” the male the couple has to discuss any “rough” or “deviant” sexual demands during the not sexualized times together, and the man has to agree and understand, that her consent to kinky sex is part of a game the two play with one another.
    This pattern is supposed to avoid the man get used to the idea that objectification of females is normal and acceptable.
  • Male gay robot behavior will simulate the human male gay-to-gay behavior: however, they will, on demand,  emphasize the aspect of loyalty and limited promiscuity.
    Since human male gay-to-gay sexuality tends to be among equals there is less need to regulate it.
  • Complex rules will define the sexuality of robot family members, servant or employee robots: like in the human-only society, most sexual approaches from a human to any robot filling one of the above roles will be rejected by the robot.
  • Regulations for the introduction of a new or the separation from a robot (devorce etc.) in a family context: if a mother or father wants to replace their longtime robot lover by buying a new one the AI will assess the impact for the human children of the man or woman and suggest a solution that limits the trauma of the child. A robot father or robot mother, a robot kin or even a robot uncle/aunt can’t just be sent off for scrapping. Different countries will regulate the issue differently over history. This will be a hotly debated field in legislation.

"Lovability" will be a key feature of the first successful robot companions: robots will be able to attract the love and affection of humans by simply looking, talking and behaving in a way that pushes the respective buttons of love reaction in the human.

Practically all human react positively to flattery, admiration, presentation of gifts, appeals to their protective instinct and a number of other genetically rooted instincts.

Based on this pattern, on a next level we all like to be around people who share our interests and believes, like to serve and help us.

If in addition our counterpart "understands" and irresistibly answers our urge for physical closeness from touching to cuddling and even sex, we value him/her (it, if we talk about a pet) as our ideal companion, and we react with the feeling of love and affection. We bond.

Lovability can be achieved with the lovable one being only 10% as intelligent as the adult (!) human counterpart (dog, baby human), without the ability to speak more than ten "words" (cat, baby human) and even despite the lovable one being demanding, egoistic, destructive (baby human, any pet, tamagotchi). As long as the lovable one triggers the leading instincts of the human precise and strong enough it will be loved and even forgiven its shortcomings.

Again, dogs and cats show that playing they keyboard of instincts doesn't even require looking and smelling similar to humans!

Lovability will become the key characteristic in robots.

Humans deny that they are driven by instincts and hormones. They insist on the - provably false - delusion that they have a completely free will. Anyone who tries to introduce a "thing" that triggers the feeling of love and affection in adults encounters a wall of resentment. Nobody wants to hear the pet are often preferred over humans argument. No adult wants to be accused of having "failed" to start and keep up successful, loving, affectionate and fulfilling human to human relationships.

The moment a Steve Jobs type understands the multi billion dollar market this will change. This inventor wouldn't focus on mobility and usability as a household servant. Someone will be the first to introduce a lovable companion. Even if its first generation will not be able to leave the sofa its sitting on and that conceals its actuators and stand alone computer and battery, and even if it looks more like a huge teddy bear with limited facial expression (like in the movie "Ted"), its companionship qualities will make it a huge hit.

Instead of talking to a dog or, worse, the even less reactive cat, there would be at least rudimentary conversations (like with a six year old?), and most importantly, there would be all the non-verbal communication that shows what we long for in humans (and so often don't get): approval ("you are so right"), understanding ("I know exactly what you are talking about."), pity ("I feel sooooo with you!"), interest ("Wow, tell me more about it"), rapport of any kind.

Is it technically difficult to simulate that companionship so believable that it feel real?

Absolutely not, and it is a strong indicator for ape instincts limiting the creativity of engineers that nobody has entered the stage with a lovable companion simulation despite the proof of concept dating back to 1966 and Joseph Weizenbaum's psychotherapist simulation "Eliza".

Eliza's successors all tried to be superhuman, answering difficult questions on a PHD level, being walking Wikipedias and just never leave the uncanny valley.

 

 

Relatability will be caused by deliberately imperfect language:

Why don't we relate to "Siri" or all the many chatbots that we have on the phone or in increasing abundance at points of sale or information?

The talk to us like superior strangers would, and that's something nobody likes. Even if the confirm that they understand us and promise that they'll everything possible to please us, we never believe them because they act and talk and treat us like the cliché of the emotionless robot.

As less perfect robot mimicking emotions and talking in not finished sentences with a few non-verbal voice sounds (like ugh, mmm, argh!, pfft!, brr, sighs, gasps, moans, groans and their various modulations) inserted into the speech would, like magic, sound believable, human and thereby relatable.

Since its a technically rather simply task there will be a new breed of chatbot software models that will become and instant and huge success, first as on screen chat bots and soon thereafter as the speech feature of toys preciding Human-Identical Robots.

 

 

 

Irresistibility will be a breakthrough in the market success of companion robots (plush toy, doll or fully humanoid):

Who can resist the sight of a cute, very young puppy? With the exception of a few mentally ill individuals, whose instincts and hormone circuits are damaged by genetic defects or a horrible biography or both, all humans react with affection to the sight of a cute little animal baby.

Why? Evolution has established a set of innate instincts in humans, like it did in all other living beings. We might not be sure about whether this or that instinct has brought an evolutionary advantage or whether it might be a remnant of older not any more useful version of (pre-human) instincts - or whether it maybe more or less a side-effect with no reason whatsoever. Import is, that we know its there, one, and it works in a particular way, two, whether our present mainstream worldview likes that fact or not.

Unlike in the fields of aggression, gender inequality, fear of strangers etc. the instinctive love for animal babies isn't disputed because it generally seen as an indicator, if not proof, of the "good" that our culture considers the main force in humans (you may laugh).

"Looking cute" is a key stimulus known to science since as long as we know that humans, as an animal species, have hard-wired instincts in us that trigger certain, rather fixed, action patterns. We want to protect, to caress, to feed the cute, little, irresistible being.

A proper simulation in looks, speech (incl. non-verbal utterance) and behavior that could be copied from whomever and whatever we traditionally or individually find "irresistible" would make a great irresistible robot!

Even in 2022, the technology is already there to build a least a speaking and purring, giggling, moaning, groaning, humming chatbots that's irresistible.

 

 

Wikipedia defines "futurology" and "utopia"

 

"Futurology":

"Futures studies [...] or futurology is the systematic, interdisciplinary and ...

Futurology:

"Futures studies [...] or futurology is the systematic, interdisciplinary and holistic study of social and technological advancement, and other environmental trends, often for the purpose of exploring how people will live and work in the future. [...] contemporary futures studies scholars emphasize the importance of systematically exploring alternatives."

 

"Utopia":

"A utopia typically describes an imaginary community or society ...

Utopia:

"A utopia typically describes an imaginary community or society that possesses highly desirable or nearly perfect qualities for its members. It was coined by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book Utopia [...]"

 

 

Glossary

  • Hyper Productivity (HyPro)
  • Universal Basic Income (UBI)
  • Total Awareness Network (TA-Net)
  • Aggression Extinguisher Systems (AggrEx)

    • Hyper Productivity (HyPro)

    New high tech automation, including robots, and the use of AI create levels of added value unknown in history.

     

    Universal Basic Income (UBI)

    The mega profits of HyPro are shared among all (!) citizens as UBI, financed by severe taxation (called "Scandinavian Taxes"). The UBI is an unconditional payment.

     

    Total Awareness Network (TA-Net)

    An ethical, democratically controlled AI assesses the input of billions of cameras, microphones and other sensors installed in all robots, gadgets which are present in any environment. Instead of helping to exploit and  oppress people it observes and analyzes all aspects of reality to help people leading a happy life,  based on high ethical standards (human rights etc.). The TA-Net thus could be seen as the all-knowing, loving and fair god that many religions have waited to act on behalf of humanity for millennia in vain.

     

    Aggression Extinguisher Systems (AggrEx)

    Technology to non-violently prevent or stop aggression. After identifying a aggressive situation, often after a help call from a potential victim, and after an ignored acoustic warning, the omnipresent TA-Net releases swarms of very small drones from the ubiquitous AggrEx containers to immobilize the aggressor by exploding very small, highly expandable, sticky and quick hardening foam ball on the body of the person.   

     

     

    Lovability

    Why the simplified writing?

    The texts are written in simple language.


    • These texts are written to be read by today's short attention span smartphone users on the screen. 
    • This target group hardly touches books and doesn't care (or know) who Wittgenstein, Adorno or Chomsky are. 
    • The text shall be accessible for not native english speakers and fit for automatic translation.
    • Lessing's audience are not "art nerds", reading "freeze". The artist wants to  arouse their interest in modern and contemporary art.
    • Lessing avoids long-winded sentences that a show-off intellectual might  resort to. 

    He wants his paintings and his predictions to be understood.   

     

     

     

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