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The robot dilemmas the guide names
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Anthropomorphism and the uncanny valley; responsibility for harm; safety; employment and displacement; surveillance.
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Define: the uncanny valley
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Comfort rises as a machine becomes more human-like, drops sharply when it is almost-but-not-quite, then rises again.
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Define: anthropomorphism
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Treating a machine as though it has feelings and intentions — which people do readily and designers encourage.
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The question to ask in any robot essay
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What is the machine funded INSTEAD of? It turns a technology answer into a social one.
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