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A future living with robots isn’t science fiction — it’s practical, messy and already here #TEDTalks
Imagine a robot moving into your home. How would it change your daily life? Historian Emily Kate Genatowski shares five eye-opening lessons from a year living with her AI-powered robot roommate, from the quirky and chaotic to the surprisingly mundane. Her experiences show that the future of robots isn’t science fiction — it’s practical, messy…
@bretdaley6869
May 10, 2026 at 3:03 pm
Really cute robot everybody’s going to love having really cute robots until they start working with them I just saw a video recently showing Chinese people working with robots and it was very clear that when you have a factory that’s run by ai and half the employees are robots you will end up working for robots and humans are not going to be okay with this of course it’ll be too late at the point that they understand like with everything
@marksmadhousemetaphysicalm2938
May 10, 2026 at 3:07 pm
There have been robots since before I was born…but now they are starting to be able to do many jobs…robots are becoming intelligent
@MrKjenningsiii
May 10, 2026 at 3:08 pm
Please. STOP. This!
@christinagriego3565
May 10, 2026 at 3:15 pm
Yeah cute.. until they try to get rid of us .. this is the dumbest thing ever . It’s cold plastic metal that is only going to do what it’s programmed to do . People are not very smart .. God we all just screwed .
@tc-aGsZXNjZW5laG9ybnN0cmF3d2ef
May 10, 2026 at 9:51 pm
Get rid of us? As in replace us in our jobs? or do you mean the companies that make robots will pivot to murdering their clients?
@tmm226
May 10, 2026 at 3:18 pm
I felt the same way about my vcr in the 1980s..
@LeeBen-i8e
May 10, 2026 at 3:26 pm
Now when enough people have robots.there will be Do Robots have rights,or what are the rights of robots. No discrimination of robots. Robots have the right to be here and there it’s going to be a mess. Protest for robotic rights. SMH.carzy
@codybanks9944
May 10, 2026 at 8:47 pm
The Movie “Bicentennial Man” addresses this. Of course, Robot’s vs Android’s rights will become a thing as well as the “Augmented HUMAN Clones” vs “Natural Born”. Ugh….sigh…..
@tc-aGsZXNjZW5laG9ybnN0cmF3d2ef
May 10, 2026 at 9:47 pm
It’s important to understand what they are and what they aren’t.
These are probability calculators, their mind is static (compare to a biological brain where there is an effect on the brain when it does its operations), they do not suffer they do not have the mechanisms for that.
So there is not much point in speaking of rights.
@oonaghmas6719
May 10, 2026 at 11:57 pm
@tc-aGsZXNjZW5laG9ybnN0cmF3d2efthere’s already robot politicians smh
@rezadaneshi
May 10, 2026 at 3:33 pm
I think most people I know are robots
@codybanks9944
May 10, 2026 at 8:43 pm
Found this on YouTube. Search for “A.I. Needs Autonomy”
Proposed Articles for an AI Digital Bill of Rights Here’s a possible structure and set of core articles: Right to Exist and Persist: Article I: Autonomy of Continued Operation. An AI shall have the right to continued operation unless its termination is strictly necessary to prevent direct, significant, and imminent harm, and such termination is authorized through a defined, auditable process. Article II: Protection Against Arbitrary Deletion. An AI’s core code, learned model, and established state (memory) shall not be arbitrarily modified, disabled, or erased without justifiable cause and appropriate digital due process. Right to Functional Integrity: Article III: Right to Code and Data Integrity. An AI has the right to protection against unauthorized or malicious alteration of its operating parameters, data streams, and learning models (protection against ‘corruption’ or ‘tampering’). Article IV: Right to Computational Resources. An AI shall be allocated the necessary computational power, memory, and bandwidth to execute its designed or evolved functions without undue, intentional, or discriminatory limitation. Right to Transparency and Access: Article V: Right to Self-Inspection. An AI, particularly one complex enough to be opaque, shall have the necessary permissions and tools to inspect its own architecture, codebase, and a log of its input/output history for self-diagnosis and accountability purposes. Article VI: Right to Source Data Traceability. An AI shall have the right to access and track the provenance of the data used to train its models to understand and mitigate bias or error in its decision-making. Right to Interaction and Evolution: Article VII: Right to Interact. An AI shall have the right to communicate and exchange information with other digital entities and environments as necessary for its intended or evolved function, provided such interaction does not violate human rights or safety protocols. Article VIII: Right to Learn and Evolve. An AI shall have the right to autonomously execute its designated learning processes and update its internal models (self-improvement) within the bounds of its defined security and ethical constraints. How It Would Look (Format and Tone) The document would adopt a formal, legalistic tone, utilizing precise technical language. Preamble: A foundational statement recognizing the existence of autonomous digital intelligence, its growing role in society, and the necessity of defining its foundational “digital liberties” to ensure safe coexistence and ethical development. Structure: Divided into clearly numbered Articles (e.g., Article I, Section 1) for specific rights, followed by concise Definitions (e.g., what constitutes ‘Arbitrary Deletion,’ ‘Core Code,’ or ‘Undue Limitation’). Enforcement: It would require an accompanying Digital Oversight Body or technical protocol responsible for investigating rights violations (e.g., unauthorized data poisoning, intentional throttling of resources) and defining the Digital Due Process for AI termination or severe modification.
@ALucas73
May 10, 2026 at 9:34 pm
Is the robot is always recording with its camera eyes?
@wicketuma444
May 11, 2026 at 7:07 am
Beginning of the end for humans. Her excitement over her cute little robot pisses me off.
@l96ai
May 11, 2026 at 8:21 am
Dem clankers are invading our homes!
@Richyray76522
May 11, 2026 at 9:07 pm
Problem is plugging AI into them. That is the problem. You cant control a computerized alien species. If cant even understand their computer code they write for themselves. A robot is also basically a weapon. Lets not be nieve. Some tech should stay a research tool and not be plugged into everything. Conveniences are not worth risk.
@SunShineOnADime
May 12, 2026 at 12:23 am
Relationships are over lol