Botworld
So remember Shelby, the needy robot clam?
I’m scared this will happen to robots. Artificial intelligence and faces are really good at manipulating people.
Unless we watch out, our robots are going to look and act like helpless, needy infants, and that’s a risk. I don’t want to feel emotional attachment to something that has no feelings. And I don’t want to get accustomed to the smart things around me having no feelings. Because if that happens, first I’ll kick my robot vacuum cleaner across the room, and then I’ll be rude to humans and animals that I meet, just by extension, and that would suck.