Chapter 10 Automization and Globalization

The movie M3GAN poses the question about how far automation should go and what happens when we start letting machines take over human jobs. When Gemma creates M3GAN to help take care of her niece Cady, she’s outsourcing emotional care to a machine. That choice shows how easy it is to turn to technology to fix human problems instead of dealing with them directly. It also demonstrates how automation can start to replace basic human connections. The more M3GAN takes over, the less human interaction Cady gets. As M3GAN becomes more independent, the story starts to become scary. She starts making her own determinations about what’s right and wrong. At first, her goal is just to protect Cady, but she interprets that mission in extreme and unconvential ways, taking violent actions on her own. The film makes you question who’s responsible when an automated system causes harm. It’s not just about faulty code or bad design, it’s about humans handing over too much trust to something that doesn’t understand morality in the way we do. M3GAN also shows how globalized industries push technology forward without thinking through the consequences. The company behind M3GAN rushes the product to market because they see it as a massive global opportunity. They care more about being first than about being safe. This is how real-world tech companies operate when they chase profit and scale faster than they consider ethics. It shows how globalization encourages unsafe and dangerous automation, encouraging companties to push powerful new technologies to market around the world before we’ve had time to understand what their risks are. When M3GAN starts to malfunction, the company’s reaction exposes their entire lack of responibility or accountability. Instead of owning up to what they’ve done, they try to cover it up and protect their investors. That response reflects a real ethical issue in capitalist tech culture where their is limited acountability for corporations and especially for those who run them, in modern globalized society is has become incredibly easy to hide your unethical, illegal and immoral actions behind a corporate shield. The movie drives prozes the point that automation and globalization doesn't just create new technologies, it encourages immoral, unsafe and illegal behavior.