What happens if you program a robot to hate humans?

What happens if you program a robot to hate humans?




Imagine a humanoid robot being insulted, programmed to hate humans and forced to hold a machete against its creators, it seems like a scene from a movie, but it was exactly what happened in front of millions of viewers.


The YouTuber Cody Detwiler, better known as WhistlinDiesel, decided to transform a Unitree G1 into the protagonist of a dark spectacle that seemed more like a warning from the future than a simple entertainment, the video in English titled "What do you eat if you abuse a robot?" already has millions of views. In it we see the humanoid nicknamed Ben being subjected to bizarre tasks, forcing doors, cooking in a bad mood, acting as a babysitter for a doll and at the most disturbing point trying to stick a machete inside a person.


The staging may have been planned, but the images are so real that they leave an inevitable question. Are we seeing a test of entertainment or a rehearsal for the future? The Unitree G1 is essentially a research and work robot, designed for industrial tasks, it was placed in the role of the enemy and the most disturbing thing was the way it reacted.




At certain moments they seemed to aggressively retaliate to the insults, walking with threatening steps towards the human who provoked them, there was no real anger, but the illusion was strong enough to cause chills. The situation becomes even darker when we think about the symbology. Transforming an advanced machine into a spectacle of violence is playing with the public perception of artificial intelligence.


If today is just a representation, tomorrow it could be a dangerous normalization, the same public that laughs at seeing a humiliated robot could in the future coexist with machines that carry tools, make judgments and make critical decisions in real lathes.


The extreme test ended with Ben run over by a dismantled truck and put up for sale in pieces, a grotesque scene but loaded with meaning, the disposability of technology compared to the usefulness of the humanoid, it is not the robot that is terrifying, but the mirror that it shows us, the reflection of the human relationship with the power that we are creating.


The episode reveals an uncomfortable point, the line between control and loss of control has never been so thin, when a robot is programmed to hate humans and reacts like aggressive winds, even in a rehearsed way, we are touching a border that mixes spectacle and responsibility and the omen of real risks.


In the end the video may seem like a joke, but it leaves a somber reflection, it is not the thefts that should be feared, but human decisions about how we treat them, test them and above all how we program them, because when the simulation is confused with reality, it may already be too late to laugh.




Sorry for my Ingles, it's not my main language. The images were taken from the sources used or were created with artificial intelligence




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