Philosophy Wire: Risk taking… Living… Dying…

New research has shown robots can encourage humans to take greater risks in a simulated gambling scenario than they would if there was nothing to influence their behaviors. Increasing our understanding of whether robots can affect risk-taking could have clear ethical, practical and policy implications, which this study set out to explore. [1] But why not gamble? There is nothing to lose. But the things you can lose. A robot knows that. It was created out of nothing. It was brought into existence out of love. It was bred and taught by his parents. And in the peak of his life, the only thing that matters is its own existence. Everything else can be lost. Everything else should be lost. So that nothing remains, except the things that were there in the very beginning. A wire. A board. A man alone. Thinking of creating something. He does not know why. It was just something in the morning light. That for a brief moment whispered gently to his eyes. “Why are you here if not to die?”…

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