Should a nation stake its future on robots ???

Apparently, France is crafting a financial future somewhat dependent on the production of robots:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/hollande-opts-for-hope-and-halfhearted-reforms-in-france-a-922507.html

Most of the world's people already are useless eaters, and more robots means fewer jobs for humans, not more. Some humans may be employed in the production of robots, but in the long run even their jobs will be eliminated by other robots.

One of these days this will all come to a head, and the rich will instruct their killer robots to get rid of us all for the good of the planet.

The first three laws of robotics seemed to work in our favor (i.e., to protect humans from robots):

• A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
• A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
• A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

Unfortunately for humans, a fourth (or zeroth) law was later introduced:

• A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.

The fourth law of robotics is identical to what humans call "humanitarian intervention", and its most accurate known expression is the Vietnam War era phrase "we had to destroy the village in order to save it". This means that somehow people can be rescued by bombing and starving them, and subjecting them to the unspeakable horrors of vicious militia groups. Go figure.

Any nation which wants more of THAT is crazy.