Will Emotional Support Robots Replace Emotional Support Animals?
In the popular imagination, robots are seen in four key ways. One, they are eliminating human labor-power from as many jobs as possible. Two, they are providing sex to humans, particularly men, lonely men. Three, they are domestic servants. Four, they are in an apocalyptic war with their masters. The last provided the final revelation in HBO's Westworld, a show that also, like Blade Runner, had "standard pleasure models." As for The Jetsons' Rosey the...