{"id":40960,"date":"2022-08-02T11:02:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T10:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frolleinflow.com\/2022\/08\/02\/people-like-to-react-aggressively-to-robots-why\/"},"modified":"2022-11-20T18:09:39","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T17:09:39","slug":"people-like-to-react-aggressively-to-robots-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frolleinflow.com\/en\/people-like-to-react-aggressively-to-robots-why\/","title":{"rendered":"People like to react aggressively to robots. Why?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In late 2015, for example, Hitchbot, a robot that hitchhiked around the world, was beaten, dented, and trampled by unknown people to the point that it could not be saved or repaired. A security robot in San Francisco was knocked over, angled in foil and smeared with BBQ sauce. A sex robot was abused at a trade show. Visitors broke his artificial fingers. Small delivery robots are kicked and knocked over . And the self-driving robo-cars from Waymo and other startups are getting rocks thrown at them. Guns have even been drawn to shoot at them.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Increasing automation does not make humans seem extraordinarily intelligent. Many react to the machines with baser instincts: they mob them. You beat them. Many are clearly afraid of them – and their consequences. <\/p>\n\n

In other words, a social problem is rolling toward us. <\/p>\n\n

More precisely, this problem has already been among us for some time, because Trump or the yellow vests are political consequences of these developments (among others) – if you do not “take the people with you”. Or to put it less paternalistically: If we don’t finally take a more holistic approach to the digital transformation of our society.<\/p>\n\n

But what makes humans act so aggressively toward the robots themselves?<\/p>\n\n