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World Service,30 Dec 2020,27 mins

The Digital Human: Subservience

The Documentary Podcast

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Aleks Krotoski finds out if how we treat our subservient robots impacts how we treat one another. As with any new invention, domestic robots illuminate issues within human society that we may not have noticed before. Are we projecting old social norms of hierarchy and gender onto this new technology?

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