The Future of Robot Rights

"I don't get the impression that we're ready for this discussion, you know, and a and a wide scale at all," he says. "If people find that fantastical, I'd like to try to ground that in phenomenon that we should all be able to accept occurs prior to getting to this artificial intelligence argument." He adds: "We are turning these things into something that mimics our own sense of emotion ... It can literally bring people to tears"