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Big tech wants us to empathize with robots

24 January 2022

2:29 PM

24 January 2022

2:29 PM

It seems like we can’t help getting attached to robots. It also seems like the people making the robots are counting on that.

In the 2015 video game Fallout 4, one of the factions with which the player can align him- or herself is “the Railroad,” an organization that helps seemingly sentient androids escape from the lab in which they’re created.

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