Debate Outline

I.                         Intro: Begin By Refuting Prime Opposition Leader, Then Build Case Fear Emergence of Robot Intelligence

II.             Robots Will/Are Ruining Economy

A.    Rich become richer, poor become poorer

                                               1.     Marshall Brain says that by 2040 robots will have taken half the jobs in the world. By 2013 1 robot per 2000 people

                    B. Unemployment leads to crime (Grabmeier)

1.     The more unemployment there is, the more crime there will be

a.     Unemployment increased crime rates by 21 percent and 35 percent respectively during that period. Bruce Weinberg strong link between unemployment and property crimes such as burglary.

III.           Robots are taking/will take over the world

                                               A.     iRobot Corp sold more than 4 million home robots worldwide since  2002 (MSNBC)

1.     home robot revenue for the third quarter of 2009 increased 55 percent from the third quarter of 2008

2.     ABI Research said this year the personal robotics market will reach $1.16 billion globally, quadruple by 2015

                                             B.      Ethics/Emotion Cannot Be Programmed (Myers)

1.     What is ethical is simply much too complex to reduce to a programmable set of rules.

2.     We seem close to creating robots that appear to convincingly exhibit emotions and empathy, but this is much different from creating robots that actually feel emotion, which we’re not even close to doing

                                            C.     Robots Will Destroy or Enslave Humans

IV.           Robots Pose Major Threat

A. 1/25/79 25 year old, Robert Williams, a Ford Motor assembly line worker, was killed when a robot’s arm slammed into him in a casting plant in Flint, Michigan

B. 1981 37 year old old Kenju Urada, a Japanese factory worker was gruesomely killed when a robot pushed him into a grinding machine

C. In March 2008, 81 year old Francis Tovey lived alone in Burleigh Heads, Australia and one day he decided to build a robot. With plans downloaded from the Internet, involving a jigsaw power tool connected to a .22 semi-automatic pistol loaded with four bullets, he programmed the robot to shoot him in the head.

V.             Robots Are Unbiblical

A.     God created humans, not robots

B.     Humans like human interaction, not robot interaction
        1. Give personal story about Fred Meyer U-Scan

VI.           Concluding Thoughts

A.     Ruin economy

B.     Take over

C.     Dangerous
D.     Unbiblical

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