«Robots’ Invasion»: New Attack of Luddism or Real Challenge?

The new wave of robotization and the mass adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) could bring enormous benefits, including a wider choice of jobs. Modern economic growth began with scientific and technological breakthroughs, accompanied by the rapid creation of more and more new goods, services, and, accordingly, new industries. A new round of scientific and technological progress in this sense can bring more benefits than all previous ones combined. This path will be feasible only if proper guarantees of liberties, freedom, and private property safeguards are restored in Western countries on the full scale. Threats to personal rights and freedoms, jobs, and the very existence of civil society with the broader AI commissioning are undeniable, but they are weakly related to technology. They directly come from the people's desire to escape responsibility, to rely on the "welfare state" instead of their own efforts. Grave threats come indirectly from replacing universal morality with artificial prostheses like Political Correctness, from the ideas and practices of an omnipotent "caring" Government.