I love the idea of robot helpers but I don't love the idea of putting cameras all over my house and having ad companies surveil my intimate space.
I do not think people are even recognizing the security ramifications of these devices. A picture of your key is enough to replicate it[0], and yet we're just going to put these devices everywhere? LLMs have been pretty easy to jailbreak too, you think thieves aren't just going to get these robots to open the doors for them? Or what about governments? Even if you trust your government now, will you trust them with data where they can literally see everything you do and say? That's well beyond 1984. Or just what about what we see from top labs like OpenAI, Anthropic, or even Google and Apple? These trillion dollar companies are not showing themselves to be good at protecting data. Obviously some better than others, but this is a whole new level of intimacy with the data they'll get. Everyone is pissed at Flock, and you want to put mobile Flock in your house?
No thanks, it isn't worth trading all that for not having to load up the dish washer and cook my own meals.
I can't believe these discussions aren't more common.
People also underestimate how dangerous these humanoid robots are. If we comply with the OSHA standards, we would need to place these robots in an enclosure with distance monitoring.
Mind you, because contemporary humanoid robots do not even have an e-stop. It’s a solution searching for a problem and blood.
I also don't like the idea of putting cameras all over my house and having ad companies surveil my intimate space, and I also don't like to add further things that require electrical power, and/or that make noise, etc. This is in addition to the security ramifications that you describe and that you don't describe, and other issues.