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How do you feel about robots?

Steven

I mean:

* What is your emotional or intellectual reaction to robots/AI?

* Do they leave you cold, scare you, or are you completely uninterested in them/it?

* Are you perhaps overly-interested in the entire subject, or even emotionally-involved?

* Are your reactions & opinions different to those of neurotypicals?

* And how do you feel about the way the wider world views both robots and autists?

I thought it might be interesting and instructive to read everybody's answers. I *think* these answers might provide a small insight into autists' minds.

Me, I find it extremely difficult not to care about the welfare of these creatures/machines. Even when they are not designed to resemble or mimic humans, I still feel feel concerned about everything from how they are treated to how it's common for them to be portrayed as lying in wait to take over the world and/or destroy or enslave us. Curiously, I can't even believe that they don't possess conscience...even when I'm 'logically' certain that they are not, in fact, conscious. And yet I don't particularly feel an especial alliance or connection between them and me. Nor do I view them and human beings as truly similar, regardless of how humans are often compared to computers or machines in terms of physical and intellectual 'make up'. As such, I feel it's insulting to both us and them when NTs consider beings like us to be emotionless drones or bizarrely-talented 'aliens'.

I don't believe that we autists are robot-like, and I don't believe that all the flaws of human beings should be ascribed to non-humans; those attitudes seem to me to be very biased and very simplistic. For a wrong-headed attitude persists amongst many neurotypicals: autists are not really autistic but, instead, we are merely 'difficult' and 'stubborn'; we are, apparently, the selfish spoilsports who won't join in and don't fit in. As for robots, the wrong-headed attitude is: 'for all their unusual gifts, they are not as gifted as us and are hopeless and helpless without the benefit of our selfless, loving grace; and we must be vigilant, because they may seek to harm us'. So perhaps there is - if not a true similarity and connection between autists and robots - a common sympathy between us. 

What are your views?

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  • I think the advances in technology is amazing and I think it's amazing the science behind it all but at the same time it does bother me. 

    I think perhaps we're already too reliant on them and technology in general. My step sisters car turns lights on for her, keeps the car straight for her... that bothers me lol. It bothers me that online robots can actually join sites like this. Its confusing and makes me uncomfortable. 

    I think it's a cool idea but maybe we're using them too much. Lots of jobs already replaced by computers and the unemployment is an ever growing problem. 

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  • I think the advances in technology is amazing and I think it's amazing the science behind it all but at the same time it does bother me. 

    I think perhaps we're already too reliant on them and technology in general. My step sisters car turns lights on for her, keeps the car straight for her... that bothers me lol. It bothers me that online robots can actually join sites like this. Its confusing and makes me uncomfortable. 

    I think it's a cool idea but maybe we're using them too much. Lots of jobs already replaced by computers and the unemployment is an ever growing problem. 

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