Eve Herold

It sounds so counterproductive.

It's counterintuitive.

It doesn't seem that, you know, we like to think of ourselves as rational beings who are always, you know, have a firm grip on what's real and what's not real.

But studies have been done with people of all ages, of all walks of life, both genders, interacting with robots and finding that these robots are able to push their emotional buttons.

And there is actual confusion in the mind about...

whether they're alive or dead, you know, whether they're conscious or not conscious, whether they're a living, you know, being or just a machine.

These things get mixed up in our minds alarmingly easily.

are a couple of robots that i've seen that are that really are quite eerie one of them is called sophia it's made by handsome robots sophia is a hyper realistic robot and she has like all these facial expressions that her face is very animated all the time and it's over the top so to me it's creepy

But there are people who just absolutely are crazy about Sophia.

In fact, she became the first robot to receive citizenship.

She's a citizen of Saudi Arabia now.

She's an experiment.

She's a prototype at this point.

So she shows up at, like, tech conventions and shows where people are able to, you know, get a sense.

When Handsome Robotics wants to roll out, you know, their latest product, they love to use Sophia because she's captivating.

I mean, you can't not – when she's talking, you cannot not look at her.

So, you know –

They're very compelling and I think most people find them, like I said, much more compelling than we would like to think that we would fall for ourselves.

And these are educated people.

These are people from all walks of life.