Addendum- There was this whole era of mechanical automatons where large clocks and mechanical chess playing man were popular. As they became complicated, they became more dehumanised as printing press or large industrial machines. We became so used to seeing machines as non-humans and now again we are seeing a future where the machines are made to look like humans (anthropomorphism) and good amount of efforts are being spent on it. I wonder though as a human society would we adapt this or not. Should my vacuum cleaner look like a person (gi joe my vote) or a beetle bug? Also what it does to our psyche if we have anthromorphised robots diligently following our commands day in and day out. Will be less tolerant of mistakes of our human subordinates?
Wonder if philosophers are also board members of these tech giants.
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