Why the Future Does Need Correctional Officers

THE INTELLIGENT MACHINE MOLECULAR LEVEL CHALLENGE

First of all, let us assume that technology today will be successful in developing intelligent machines that can do most things better than human beings can do them and run with that concept. In this general assumption, there is no doubt that much of prison management will be done by highly sophisticated infra-structures or systems of machines with minimal human effort. In theory, some of these machines will be permitted to make all of their own decisions without human oversight and others will require some kind of human control over the machines retained or designed to perform certain tasks, duties and responsibilities.

Naturally, if the intelligent machine is permitted to make all their own decisions, it us much too early to make any guesses or conjectures how that would impact running a prison as it is too early to predict such results. We can, however, point out that it will be humans depended on machines how things turn out with or without human intervention. How we turn over such power to the machines and relieve humans of such tasks voluntarily will depend on how efficient machines can do the job as a correctional officer.

In some cases, I can predict the machines will work themselves into ‘drift’ positions as not all tasks are compatible with machine made decisions. Hence we are developing a conflict between machine made decisions and those of man-made origins. At what stage of this process do we allow machines to effectively take control and power from the humans and simultaneously provide the necessary decisions and actions to assure making good decisions.

At what level or stage will the machines will be in effective control. Management principles writing the rules on such decision-making won’t be able to just turn the machines off, because turning them off would amount to suicide of their designed capabilities and cause a systems failure in whatever area they are poised to perform. How effective machines become will determine the ratio of men versus machine development and deployment factors. It is suspect that in due time, due to improved techniques the choice of using machines, will have greater control over the masses; and because human work will no longer be necessary the masses will be unessential rather than essential and become a useless burden on the system.

Machines as shepherds, guardians or controllers over the prison populations would please those who want prisons to be punitive, rigid, harsh and toxic without deviation or alternatives for human incapacities or disabilities. It would be near impossible to satisfy under most humanoid psychologically hygienic conditions. These machines would have to be designed to have or possess a wide-range of biologically or psychologically engineered abilities. If this was done successfully, human would be reduced to the status of domestic animals rather than intelligent useful and purposeful individuals.

Thus it becomes important to evaluate how these intelligent machines make decisions and what draws this capacity into a resolution when faced with problems with other humans, not machines. Any wrongful inputs or programming would result in unintended consequences, consequences that could be cold, and criminally susceptible in actions or deeds.

The industry would serve public safety better if they are compelled to address and confront this matter before such machines are installed to replace correctional officers. Contrary to common myths and beliefs, prison systems involving the business of managing people is very complex and involves various interactions that are often, difficult to predict, even for humans. A machine would react on the highest probability rate or assessment rather than take into account any exceptions.

Today, our most powerful technologies - robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech – are threatening to make human correctional officers, an endangered species. The one factor we need to keep in mind is that machines do not have the capacity to be conscious. Certainly, the way technology is rapidly growing, and with the current rate of improvements, we will accelerate the relationship between human prisoners and robotic machines overseeing prison operations and programs. Without a doubt, there will be implementations of robots fused or joined with humans to create a workforce inside prisons.

How well this partnership uses these powers to reshape the prison world should be based on realistic and imminent scenarios to give them a high predictability of making the right decisions most of the time. however, morally and legally, these wouldn’t be ordinary predictions. They would have to calculate every factor of a situational assessment that surpasses any schematic or blueprint of human behaviors.

The more information there is gathered, the more the uneasiness is intensified with relative serious consequences and dangers. One could guess there is a high probability of a bad outcome in such encounters. Taking the fact that prisons do experience various ‘out of control’ situations, it is a grave concern how such machines would act with it comes to terms with threats or dangers different from what they are programmed for. In some cases, machines could in fact, escalate the dangers by exercising their own ‘out of control’ measures to offset the prison situation. This creates a pure antagonistic situation that would be hard to resolve without first inflicting serious harm to people or structures designed to provide public safety and secure environments. In some cases, the machines would have to be simply shut down to avoid escalating the problems or increasing the matter at hand to a greater risk.

A machine does not possess a conscious. Therefore, it has no fear, no sense of mortality and no ability to compromise. It just does whatever it is programmed to do; it could become more powerful and more aggressive in behavior that could pose an enormous threat to the entire environment. For machines to match our molecular level consciousness, it would need to consider structures of relevance in the environment, relationships and other core values that encompass the social, physical, intellectual, spiritual, sexual and material aspects of the human mind. in humans.

These core values are deeply engrained, and engender a great amount of sub-actions for decision making capabilities. Without proper guidance of these deliberate programed intentions, we have not only intelligent machines to operate and take care of our prison population but we also have innumerous amounts of robots that contain the knowledge-enabled mass-destruction (KMD) capacity simply amplified by the number of robots assigned to do the job on every shift.