But we don't want to use a robot as a slave. They could end up being used to deal with the dark side of society, things like defusing bombs or cleaning up nuclear accidents. Those do sound like reasonable tasks for a machine, to protect humans from risk. But in a society that bonds with its machines and even gives them names, it's hard to be cavalier about what those machines are asked to do. We would feel sorry for them if they had to do those jobs.
Japan is a good place to be a machine.
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