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Noreena Hertz || How to Restore Human Connection

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Artificial Intelligence and Social Robots Can Help the Elderly

I'm excited about the role that artificial intelligence and social robots can play in a alleviating loneliness, especially amongst the elderly. In japan you see elderly women knitting bonnets for their robot carers. It is thing err to assume that people can't feel connected to an inanimate object. So we can become attached to these objects. And e and anthe danger is, of course, that when these substitute products become even more compelling, that we use them over flesh and blood, normal relationships,. which demand so much more of us, and therefore end up really isolating ourselves even more. Am, yes.

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