Robots Can Effectively Brainwash Children
August 22nd, 2018And now, children, we’ll learn how jet fuel can melt structural steel.
Via: SHTFplan:
“People often follow the opinions of others and we’ve known for a long time that it is hard to resist taking over views and opinions of people around us. We know this as conformity. But as robots will soon be found in the home and the workplace, we were wondering if people would conform to robots.”
“What our results show is that adults do not conform to what the robots are saying. But when we did the experiment with children, they did. It shows children can perhaps have more of an affinity with robots than adults, which does pose the question: what if robots were to suggest, for example, what products to buy or what to think?” — Professor in Robotics Tony Belpaeme, one of the scientists behind the study.
