You don’t have to build a very sophisticated robot to get people to treat it as if it were an animal.
One doesn’t have to write a very sophisticated program to get people to treat it as if it were a living thing. The extent to which human beings are willing to be duped by computers is already very large. I can come up with somebody with exactly the right profile to sympathize with all of my problems and even to have solutions and give me all sorts of good advice and stuff like that. I can do that today, but in 2050, I can do it in a much more sophisticated way. In 2050, it’s easy for me to dream up somebody to chat with instead of talking to a real human being. The real question is not what machines or the network will be like in 2050, but what human beings will be like in 2050…whether they’ll use advances in technologies as an excuse for laziness or an excuse for imaginativeness…for laziness and lazy ways to make money and rising wealth, which is certainly good in itself…whether they will lean on computers as replacements for memory, replacements for thinking, replacements for computation and calculation, the sorts of things we do in daily life, replacements for companionship.
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