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#329 – Kate Darling: Social Robots, Ethics, Privacy and the Future of MIT

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Social Media Is Evil and It's Doing Bad by Us

I think that robots would be valuable to people even if they're not marketing something or helping with preferences or anything. Just a simple the same thing as a pet like a dog that has no function other than being a member of your family. I don't think the market realizes that yet. So my concern is that companies are not going to go in that direction at least not yet. It seems almost old fashioned to have a disconnected object that you buy that you're not like paying a subscription for it's not like controlled by one of the big corporations.

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