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I 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 n
by wizzard 14y ago
I 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.