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MIT ethnographer warns of the dangers of social technology

By Alliance Alert

The Chronicle of Higher Education: "She has spent some 15 years . . . studying this emerging breed of 'sociable robots'?including toys like Furbies and new robotic pets for the elderly?and what she considers their seductive and potentially dangerous powers. She argues that robotics' growing trend toward creating machines that act as if they were alive could lead people to place machines in roles she thinks only humans should occupy. Her prediction: Companies will soon sell robots designed to baby-sit children, replace workers in nursing homes, and serve as companions for people with disabilities. All of which to Turkle is demeaning, 'transgressive,' and damaging to our collective sense of humanity."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on January 17, 2011 (boomark / email).