Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Robots Will Parent Your Children

Here's a chilling thought - robots may soon take over the parenting role for your children:

The project will develop a “new breed of sophisticated ‘socially assistive’ robots,” designed to help children “learn to read, appreciate physical fitness, overcome cognitive disabilities, and perform physical exercises,” according to a news release by Yale University when the grant was first announced in 2012.

“Just like a good personal trainer, we want the robots to be able to guide the child toward a behavior that we desire,” said Brian Scassellati, a computer science professor at Yale and principal investigator for the study.

http://freebeacon.com/issues/feds-spending-10-million-to-build-robot-companions-for-children/

"Behavior that we desire?" Who is the "we" in that sentence? It doesn't sound like the parents (who won't be doing the programming of these robots); it sounds more like Professor Brian and his brutal overlords who are paying for the project.

And who will get these robot parents? Certainly not poor kids. Aren't rich kids screwed up enough already? Do they also need robot parents to further separate them from the real humans they shall someday rule?

Will these really be robots, or golem?

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