{"id":5019,"date":"2020-02-13T00:00:07","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T21:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newworldai.com\/?p=5019"},"modified":"2020-02-13T00:10:13","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T21:10:13","slug":"let-daughter-marry-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newworldai.com\/let-daughter-marry-robot\/","title":{"rendered":"Should I have let my daughter marry our robot?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>I pride myself on being open-minded. I am a transhumanist, and our culture pushes us to use science and technology to always want to be more than we are.<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">My friends do everything from injecting themselves with self-created genetic treatments to volunteer for brain implants that will integrate artificial intelligence (AI). <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">But when my five-year-old daughter asked to marry our four-foot tall robot, even I was a little wary. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">In 2015, I bought our Meccanoid robot for my 2016 US presidential campaign, to follow me around and create support for transhumanism. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">It rode in the front seat of my campaign bus across America. With only a basic AI, it could answer simple questions and do things like mimic human movement and dance. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">It could also teach karate to my two daughters, who were so young, they may not have even noticed it wasn\u2019t alive. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">At age three, my eldest daughter played with it often, including introducing it to her friends. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">At aged five, she announced she was in love with the robot and wanted to marry it. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">My wife and I set up a mock wedding and filmed it. It was all good fun until my wife asked how I\u2019d feel if my daughter wanted to do this as an adult with a robot she loved. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Kids do lots of crazy things with their imaginative minds that have little bearing on the future. Playing make-believe has been a cornerstone of childhood for millions of kids for generations. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Zoltan Istvan, Transhumanist, speaker, entrepreneur and author<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2019\/07\/24\/should-i-have-let-my-daughter-marry-our-robot-10361703\/?fbclid=IwAR3-loDsnbxvxR7b13O71dNiBSmqYSK4Ji1axiMW1S0XZ8DLSLhoerour2I\"><strong>Read more: metro.co.uk<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I pride myself on being open-minded. 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