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How can we stop robot abuse? Chips with Everything podcast

The Guardian

Personal assistants such as Amazon's Alexa or the Google Assistant are growing in popularity, and children love them. Unfortunately, children have also been proven to abuse robots – so scientists in Seoul, South Korea are trying to teach kids that this isn't OK. Do we need to be worried about the way that we learn to interact with robots? Is there any risk that it will impact how we interact with other humans? And does that change when Google and the rest are also trying to make their artificial intelligences sound as deceptively human as possible?