On the 6th of March, our group met up to share what we have worked on individually and what we want to present in our group presentation.
Before the meeting, I have worked on different scenarios regarding the creation of a robot.
Here I referred to the cycle of how the work environment, emotions, and the mental state (positive or negative state and positive or negative work environment) of the creator of the robot, affects the robot device itself and how this can have influence again on the user of the robot. Here again, I imagined two different scenarios within that. One in which the user is in a good mental state and one in which he is in a bad mental state in his or her life. Overall, this created 4 different scenarios which I am listing down below again:
(Creator: good mental space and work environment + Receiver: good mental state)
(Creator: good mental space and work environment + Receiver: bad mental state)
(Creator: bad mental space and work environment + Receiver: good mental state)
(Creator: bad mental space and work environment + Receiver: bad mental state)
We started adding this to our poster which we intend to show on Thursday’s presentation additionally to our idea to create robots with different materials or attach them to our bodies and perform with them, so observers can see how robots and users interact, and how each responds.
For that, we intend to create a script as well, so that it becomes an actual performance.
So within our robot agency, which is how we imagine the future, we thought generally deeper into what interactions between robot and user could look like with the help of the cycle of ‘’Human creators’’ – ‘’AI and Robots’’ – ‘’Human users’’.
Within this future, we also hope that robots will be able to adapt more to humans, also on an emotional level with being less monotone, as for now, humans always have to adapt and change their voices when communicating with AI.
The cycle and scenarios were portrayed on poster one.
On our second poster, we listed more information about our agency itself, such as what year we imagine this agency in, which we decided 2070 on, as well as what it overall provides people with. We see this agency connecting AI and robots to humans who require this service. Just as regular work agencies provide workers to people who need to get a job done; fundamentally the same concept, just with advanced technology. This business model would essentially encourage people to use AI more and make it easier to access it without spending a huge amount. This could theoretically lead to a high demand in the AI sector as people get to try it and if it turns out to be working for them and makes their life easier. The demand for purchasing robots would also rise. Overall, this model would make people most likely adopt AI more into their lives.
On the poster, we also created a story of how a scenario out of the 4 mentioned could look like.
The story explains how the workers behind the machines creating them are becoming invisible and are obviously not seen from the agency’s side. This is because the agency is just obtaining the machines from the companies, but the agency actually does not see what is happening in the work environment of the creation.
One day those invisible workers become really exhausted, due to the work overload they have to deal with and start to gradually influence the organization. Workers start to integrate errors and change contents.
With this, the system obviously starts to show many bugs and defects and the institution decides to investigate those workers.
With this investigation, the heads of the organization start to realize and learn from their mistakes. The problems start to come to their attention, and their business model is adapted for the sake of the workers’ health. With this, they want to secure the overall well-being of the workers, as well as create a better work environment. This will lead to improved work conditions and better robots that can be provided to the agencies for instance.
This is a general and broad example of how robots could turn out if workers were to perform their job with weak mental health and anger. This example will hopefully clarify and explain our thought about the future of work and how we imagine it with the example of the AI agency with additional explanation of how it could be affected within the workspace.