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AI, Robot Cruelty, and the Human Instinct to Dominate
A new commentary examines how people treat humanoid robots and AI agents, arguing that cruelty toward machines reveals something about the human instinct to dominate. The piece asks whether abusive behaviour toward robots, even without the machines feeling pain, shapes human character and social norms as robots become everyday companions in homes, workplaces and public spaces.
Why now: Growing public debate about how humans should behave toward robots as they become more common in daily life.
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