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The Digital Human: Subservience

Aleks Krotoski finds out if how we treat our subservient robots impacts how we treat one another.

Aleks Krotoski finds out if how we treat our subservient robots impacts how we treat one another. As with any new invention, domestic robots illuminate issues within human society that we may not have noticed before. Are we projecting old social norms of hierarchy and gender onto this new technology?

(Illustration: Seonaid Mackay)

27 minutes

Last on

Sat 2 Jan 2021 02:32GMT

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  • Wed 30 Dec 2020 04:32GMT
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  • Sat 2 Jan 2021 02:32GMT