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That percentage became less disturbing for me once the article broke it down by age groups: "For example, while 93 percent and 67 percent of 9 year olds said t
by khill 14y ago
That percentage became less disturbing for me once the article broke it down by age groups:
"For example, while 93 percent and 67 percent of 9 year olds said that they believed Robovie to be intelligent and to have feelings, respectively, those percentages drop to 70 percent and just 43 percent when you ask 15 year olds the same thing. Older children were also much less likely to think of Robovie as a friend, but more likely to object to a person being able to sell Robovie."
As children get older, they understand that Robovie is not a friend but they object to selling an intelligent being. I think this just implies that younger children don't understand the concept of slavery as a violation of basic human rights.
- wizzard 14y agoI think that the younger the child, the more likely they are to see a robot as a toy. Children assign properties of intelligence and feelings to toys, without necessarily believing them to be sentient or human-like. I don't think it's so much that 9-year-olds think slavery is OK, it's that they think of it as a toy ownership issue, not a human rights issue.
- burgerbrain 14y agoI feel uncomfortable attempting to derive any conclusions from a comparison between these two groups. It seems to me that since technology and technology presence is advancing so quickly that the way children of different ages view technology could very likely depend on what sort of technology they were exposed to their entire lives. 15 year olds remember dumb-phones/feature phones; do 9 year olds? An interview of the 9 year old children in 6 years that you could compare to the interviews of the currently 15 year old children would be very interesting.