Plan Now for the Robot Apocalypse
By Michael Todd
PSMag.com
November 28, 2012
Ah, lovable robots, so helpful and kind and compliant, who wouldn’t fall in love with them? And that was the gist of a popular story by Robert Ito in our current print edition. People, perhaps channeling the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation’s promise of a robot as “your plastic pal who’s fun to be with,” are growing inordinately fond of their mechanical friends:
What happens as robots become ever more responsive, more humanlike? Some researchers worry that people—especially groups like autistic kids or elderly shut-ins who already are less apt to interact with others—may come to prefer their mechanical friends over their human ones.
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