Robota, a Czech word meaning serf labour or, more generally, drudgery, gave birth to the English term ‘robot’ with the publication of Karel Čapek’s 1920 play R.U.R. In today’s context, the etymology is not reassuring, with its echoes of slavery and hard labour. Slavery is a word we are forced to talk about again since, with the advancement of work carried out by robots, people run the risk of being forced or self-induced to comply with what is required by devices controlled by artificial intelligence. We are getting used to living so intimately with technologies that we do not bother to examine them in-depth.

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人工制造与AI的挑战

捷克语Robota的意思是农奴劳动，或更普遍的说是苦工，随着KarelČapek1920年的戏剧RUR的发行，诞生了英语术语“ robot” 。在今天的语境中，词源学并不令人放心，它伴随着奴隶制和艰苦的劳动。奴隶制是我们不得不再次谈论的一个词，因为随着机器人执行的工作的发展，人们冒着被强迫或自我诱使遵守人工智能控制的设备所要求的风险。我们已经习惯于与技术如此亲密地生活在一起，因此不必费心去深入研究它们。