Reading Stories Can Teach Empathy to Both Humans and Robots

"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them,"Joseph Brodsky, a Russian and American poet, once said. Books let the reader experience new, different worlds, unexpected events, wild adventures. But foremost, they open the access to the minds of others, minds of characters and minds of narrators. Common sense tells us that reading fiction should train people in understanding what others think and feel.