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Is it ethical to give robots human-like personalities?

For

It makes interactions easier and more natural.

Against

It confuses people and blurs the line between real and artificial.

Anonymous excerpts, translated where noted.

For

  • In certain roles, eg: in providing care, it would certainly make them more palatable to actual humans.
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  • People like to interact with people.
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Against

  • their personality in this view would be strictly illusory, a product of their distinct design, voice, and self-reinforced community memes.
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  • When I see a robot covered with skin to look like human, I see an impostor, that wants to trick me.
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