At every turn, Mr. Kaplan wrote, “we see ourselves in the mirror of the machines that we can build.”This doesn’t explain human destruction of less humanoid machines. Abuse of humanoid robots can be disturbing and expensive, but there may be a solution, said Ms. Wykowska, the neuroscientist. She described a colleague in the field of social robotics telling a story recently about robots being introduced to a kindergarten class. “That went on until the point that the caregiver started giving names to the robots. So the robots suddenly were not just robots but Andy, Joe and Sally.

Source: New York Times January 19, 2019 10:52 UTC