Eve Herold

Because ultimately, robot relationships are not going to make you grow.

They're not going to truly make you flourish as a human being.

In fact, studies have shown that when people use them too much, their real social skills atrophy.

So they actually become less connected, more alienated, and potentially more lonely.

So this is something we really need to pay attention to as a cultural phenomenon.

You are absolutely right, Michael.

This has been demonstrated in multiple studies.

People tend to overestimate the intelligence of robots and underestimate their own intelligence.

And by that, I mean, when you put them in a group of people with one robot in the group and they ask a simple question and people go around the room and give their answer to the question, they're mostly correct because it's a simple question.

And then the robot gives an incorrect answer.

And then 80% of those people change their answer to match the answer of the robot, because we really overestimate

We put a very high value on a certain type of intelligence in this day and age.

And it's computational intelligence that really impresses us and that robots really excel in.

But they don't have emotional intelligence.

They don't have creative intelligence.

They don't have moral intelligence and the whole gamut of the different types of intelligence that human beings have.

Yes, we do overestimate them, and people are influenced by them.

And I think this is eventually going to percolate through society to the point where the culture changes somewhat.

Well, you know, new materials have been invented in recent years.

You know, there's a material called flubber and it's a flexible material that's used in the in like Sophia's face, for example.