Would you kill a robot?

Would you kill (turn off) a robot even if it pleaded you not to? Back in 2011, an experiment was held to see how people would react to a robot begging not to be turned off. Overtime, the person volunteering would unplug the robot's wires, and one by one, the robot would beg more and start to turn off slowly. Finally, this resulted in a dead robot and a saddened human volunteer. Although, the robot pleaded and begged not to be turned off, the humans still turned it off. Some people, however, had trouble killing the robot. As for others, it wasn't that hard. The point is that even though robots aren't human, people still interact with them in a certain way. Thanks for reading and check out the video above to see the experiment video!



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