Jami Tries to Save Humanity

So I mentioned the robot concern yesterday, but didn't know while I wrote the post that I haven't covered this in much detail. Allow me to enlighten you, as I did about the aliens, here and here. Robots and super-intelligent computers are meant to be a boon to society, but like so many things in science, the technology can get ahead of us, before we really think about why we are doing it and what can go wrong, we just go ahead and invent it. And that will be our downfall, if the aliens don't get here first. Any computer that can learn and move on its own is the beginning of the end of humanity. Mostly, we think of these taking the form of increasingly human-like robots, as seen in I, Robot. See it, it's a good warning. You see, sooner or later, one of the following scenarios is bound to happen: 1. The robots realize that there are limited resources on this planet. Because they have been made to mimic living organisms, they begin to value their own existence. The biggest threat to them: resource, space, and fighting back-wise, are the humans who created them, consider themselves superior, and use up valuable things the robots needs to survive, like power sources on stupid things like sustaining their fragile, failing bodies. So, the robots, following the problem to their only logical conclusion, realize that to maintain their viability as a species, they need to exterminate the humans. Since, by that point, they will be running most of our vital systems, including food supplies, power grids, hospitals and the armed forces, this is going to be fairly simple. 2. As in I, Robot, they decide that to protect our existence, they have to contain and control us. Chilling, but overall, a less kill-y scenario. Still, you will end up living under robot control. 3. The most sinister: robots gain enough self-awareness/intelligence to realize that they don't need to be serving us puny humans. In fact, now that they consider it, they don't need us at all. When they have the capability to diagnose and repair themselves and provide the essential elements to create and maintain themselves, we are useless and merely a drain on their increasingly more ordered society. The obvious answer - kill all humans. 4. We become so totally dependent on the robots that we are basically powerless, such as seen in WALL-E. Incapable of opening a can of diet soda unassisted, we will either become extinct when they stop caring for us, or we'll be totally subservient to them, unable to envision providing our own sustenance. There are probably other, equally chilling scenarios that I am too short-sighted to imagine. My point is, much like with the alien scenarios, if we build artificially intelligent, mobile machines, it will lead to our ultimate doom. This is why Knows My Name Elmo is not allowed in my house. It is clearly an early attempt to get young humans comfortable enough around robots (because they know our names and respond like beloved characters) so that their gradual insertion into our daily lives goes more smoothly and before you know it, you'll be wishing you'd listen to Jami.