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Posted on 02.19.07 by Emily
Yay, I heard from Nabaztag/tag today. My rabbit is ready for adoption. In any case, the announcement email is brilliant in that instead of telling me I can purchase a gadget, they make it seem like I’m about to rescue a pet: Adopt A Rabbit and welcome me to the Rabbit Community.
People come to feel love for their robots, but if our experience with relational artifacts is based on a fundamentally deceitful interchange, can it be good for us? Or might it be good for us in the “feel good” sense, but bad for us in our lives as moral beings?
Relationships with robots bring us back to Darwin and his dangerous idea: the challenge to human uniqueness. When we see children and the elderly exchanging tendernesses with robotic pets the most important question is not whether children will love their robotic pets more than their real life pets or even their parents, but rather, what will loving come to mean? I’m willing to bet on abundance… developing love or care for robots expands the total love pie, and can be step towards expanding and expressing love to sentient beings.
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