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In California, decades ago we used to be able to throw away our household trash in one container. Now we have 3 containers, and it's recently become a fine-profit center: if folks don't properly separate their recycling, greenery, and trash components, the AI-surveillance cameras mounted on the trucks will catch it and fine the subscriber (never mind that these trash-recycling-greenery containers are unlocked and on the street where anyone can open and toss something in). In similar fashion, if society adopts robots for household chores, how long until household inspections are held to fine people (as a profit center) who don't keep their homes sufficiently neat?
how are you getting from A to Z there?
What reason would the governments have for mandating a fine for dirty homes, and further more why would the existence of a robot make this more likely?
I'm making what is called an analogy.
The motive is money, but I didn't say anything about governments, that was your interpretation, and I'll admit it is a possibility. These robots are said to be AI, and I'd be very surprised if they don't also have wireless communications of some kind, but to whom and whether those communications can be hacked are all unknowns.
A fine put in place by who if not the government?
The privacy concerns of such a machine are indeed valid and I see no reason for anyone to put one in their house.
In the case of trash collection, the fine has been put in place by the trash-collection corporations. How that specifically may analogize to household-chore robots: I'm not sure. There are possibilities, but picking one among many and saying it will certainly be that one seems likely to be like gambling. Perhaps the robotic company requires you to sign an end-user agreement with lots of fine-print legalese.
Yeah, but in that scenario you can just not buy the robot.