If We Care For Robots, Who Will Care For Us?

Embracing AI will leave us empty-handed.

Robot Photo by Alex Knight on Unsplash (The one I “met” was a different model.)

All I knew going in was the University of Washington was going to pay me pretty well for an hour and a half of my time. They mentioned a guided tour of the HINTS Lab (Human Interaction With Nature and Technological Systems), which they would videotape, then a sit-down interview afterward.