Yes ! The benefits of automation outweigh the risks, and we should continue to explore this form of technology within reason. For myself, it would be fun to advance technologically in all facets and continue pushing the Green Movement. For instance, technology that could help clean up the environment, as it already does, but improvements could definitely be made. Imagine paying money to go into a portal that brings you to an exotic beach instantly for an evening and instantly back home after you were done relaxing an ready to go home to your bed. Or, to have automated technology to further clean the damage done to the oceans more effectively, technology that lets us explore the depths of the ocean, to fly in a spaceship for fun. These examples are just a few of my personal wishes, but there is just so much that could potentially be done here! "Improving things" and "exploring the unknown" are modern day mottos in our society afterall, right or wrong.
However, we should be careful to both morally and ethically advance automated devices. There are simply some things that are nice, like interacting with another human being. So, we need to continue to have jobs, school programs, grocery stores, and telephone calls, among other things that involve human interaction. Machines are here to make our world run more efficiently and effectively, but we would have a problem if we started to developing strong emotional bonds with the machines that are serving us! Additionally, it would be and is immoral to use automated technology to cause mass destruction or war.
An important and essential safeguard that should be built into any automated program is an 0n/0ff button that can be pushed by a human hand, for sometimes even the most advanced technology malfunctions.
