A new world order created by humans for humans- homo sapiens to robo sapiens.
The human race has come a long way from establishing itself as the predominant homo sapiens species alive on the planet, to creating powerful, innovative and pathbreaking technologies. Essentially AI that is yet to play a major role in how our species will evolve or may we say struggle and fight to evolve alongside it’s own hand created competitor humanoids? Humans are probably creating a new race called robo sapiens! However only time will tell how true this premise will be. How did the world structures designed by homo sapiens look like until now? Humans have dominated plant earth by evolving over long periods of time with changes in biology, genetic makeup, behaviors, psychology ultimately winning the tag of survival of the fittest amongst the other weaker species. Human race has craved freedom, independence, attention, acknowledgement, validation, accomplishment and sense of achievement. However, above all is their desire for power and control. One way to achieve that, was the creation of social structures, systems, and subsystems in the form of religion, social and cultural structure (being part of a community), family structures, governance structures and politics to create order in chaos. Humans have always had this deep-seated desire to control everything be it people, their behaviors, habits, reactions. Human psychology can be immensely complex and therefore it is uncertain to understand what another person thinks, maybe this innate desire and quest to understand humans and control their reactions, humans ended up creating human machines that can be controlled by them and dance to their command to satisfy their need for control and dominance. Nonetheless this inclination to experiment with creating a human machine (humanoids) that can be controlled can backfire where it gains so much power to reverse the power dynamics that has existed for millenniums. Humanoids where data will be the new life force can become a part of our everyday life not just employed in warehouses and factories. They will work on a combination of machine learning and artificial intelligence suited to meet the personalized needs and requirements of their human owner. Finally, humans can have full control on their personal humanoid and tweak it to meet its needs. Let’s have a look at how AI humanoids will have a metamorphic impact on how the world will function over the coming decades. AI humanoids will transform social structures, reshaping roles, relationships and cultural norms. Humanoids can act as companions, caregivers and therapists to help beat loneliness for the elderly and those who suffer from social anxiety. However, over time humans can grow emotionally attached and dependent to these machines as they will always meet their expectations that another human may sometimes falter to meet, dehumanizing existing human relationships. This may lead to humans living in a delusional reality avoiding interaction with other human beings impacting social relations or social structures created by humans. This delusional reality is in fact taking shape as people have started to get addicted to using AI chatbots and are treating them as their best friends, brother, sister and more!! AI humanoid partners challenge marriage and dating norms offering conflict free relationships. AI humanoids could transform marriage, succession (AI as estate planners and caregivers) , kids (AI driven childcare), and birth (low birth rates- falling populations) and risk eroding of emotional bonds and cultural traditions (how the society has functioned since centuries). Imagine a time when humans get so attached to AI that they may leave their wills in the name of their beloved humanoids with regards to succession planning. AI humanoids can have massive implications on human mental state as they will be living in a delusion. In addition humans may be a bit skeptical of using humanoids when it comes privacy of data as AI will collect massive data on their day to day life. They can act as hobby buddies or perfect pals teaching leisure skills like cooking, gaming, painting, dancing and more, reducing human hangouts. In addition overreliance on humanoids will impact organic community engagements like community gatherings or participation in cultural rituals or events leading to cultural erosion. Humanoids will challenge collectivist (Asia) society norms v/s individualist (West) gaining backlash and criticism. Humanoids will be majorly programed with the human and cultural biases created over centuries. They may give more western standardized answers and outlook to questions. Imagine a time when maybe AI will become so powerful that it itself can question the premises of human made biases of culture, religion ( threat to divine order), social structures philosophies and more. The existing generation of this race may resist these answers to these questions, but the new generations may accept these new values and maybe treat AI as the new God. AI humanoids will transform the work environment by automating tasks, reshaping team dynamics and propel new skills. Let’s see how it will impact the workplace and livelihood in the coming decades? AI humanoids can achieve physical and cognitive tasks and can act as co-workers be it in a factory setting or your workplace resulting in flexible production lines, human-robot collaborations and global competitiveness. They will impact job roles in manufacturing, retail, hospitality, health care and caregiving leading to a massive impact on the livelihood of millions. While they may automate numerous tasks they will create a way for new job titles such as robot maintenance, ethics oversight, AI programming. Humanoids can propel a culture of social isolation since they will handle customer facing and team support roles resulting in reduced workplace banter and team cohesion leading to a diminished human touch. While humanoids will be viewed as productivity boosters and efficiency enhancers in settings like the tech forward Silicion Valley (individualist culture) on the flip side they may be viewed as threatening human centric values like empathy, team work and creativity in collectivist cultures. In agriculture sector they will support in precision farming and can address labour shortage issue. Humanoids can work in adverse weather and long hours without fatigue and will also predict crop yield, detect
