It makes one wonder if people will end up developing emotional attachments to the machines.
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Actually, spot-on
"Moved by the attachment these owners had to their AI pups, one repair person began offering funeral services for retired units. Conducted in Buddhist temples and presided over by priests chanting sutras, these rituals allowed grieving owners to ceremonially mourn the loss of their companion—before it was disassembled for parts.
For Tok Thompson, associate professor of anthropology and communication and author of the book "Posthuman Folklore" (University Press of Mississippi, 2019), stories of this sort are no longer surprising. He cites another example, provided to him by Jonathan Gratch, of the USC Institute for Creative Technologies :"Roomba owners who send their unit in for repair often request the same unit back, out of a sense of attachment."
https://m.phys.org/news/2020-01-robots-snails-human-rights.html
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