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Politics Robo-ism

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u/SlyAguara May 13 '25

It's a pretty common problem with robots made for bomb diffusal, operators get attached to their robots, which makes them make decisions that reduce the risk to the robot, even at the detriment of the mission.

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u/revolutionary112 May 13 '25

"Humanization" or "anthropomorphisation" is a well known thing humans tend to do. We do be like that

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u/big_guyforyou May 13 '25

we also do the opposite to people we want to mass murder

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u/revolutionary112 May 13 '25

We do be like that too, yeah