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The Documentary Podcast, The Digital Human: Subservience

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The Digital Human: Subservience


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December 30, 2020

28 minutes

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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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