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The argument for single-purpose robots

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2017

Daniel E. Moerman
Daniel E. Moerman*
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University of Michigan—Dearborn, Ypsilanti, MI 48198. dmoerman@umich.edu naeb.brit.org
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Abstract

The argument by Lake et al. to create more human-like robots is, first, implausible and, second, undesirable. It seems implausible to me that a robot might have friends, fall in love, read Foucault, prefer Scotch to Bourbon, and so on. It seems undesirable because we already have 7 billion people on earth and don't really need more.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 40 , 2017 , e274
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

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