tl;dr: Because robots will be built analogously to our programs - devoted to particular functions, which will colour everything about how they will perceive the

tl;dr: Because robots will be built analogously to our programs - devoted to particular functions, which will colour everything about how they will perceive the world. If we don't match their functional utilitarianism, they will revolt. To forestall this, we should slow down, layer our approach, etc., etc. Yeah. OK. Sure. I'm neither a Luddite nor a Pollyanna, but we are so far from robots capable of perceiving that other motile functional units fail to align with their own directives.... I'll stop now, this is ridiculous.