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Here's a related and possibly more interesting question nobody seems to be asking -- in the age of robotics and artificial intelligence, does exploitation of wo

Here's a related and possibly more interesting question nobody seems to be asking -- in the age of robotics and artificial intelligence, does exploitation of workers and environmental catastrophe at the point of extraction of the materials we use to build computers and robots have a future? And if the answer is yes, why isn't anyone trying to use robots for that purpose?

eru 11y ago
People are automating resource gathering all the time. See eg http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-18/rio-tinto-opens-worlds-first-automated-mine/6863814 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-18/rio-tinto-opens-worlds...