What are your thoughts about prosocial / humane bots?

[patm]

@khkey, I think that Arnold’s response to @PatMc’s post may be apropos here.

What Are Your Greatest Concerns With Technology?

I am most worried about our almost complete loss of privacy, the sea of personal information on us that is out in the wild, and how this can be abused by anyone, ranging from tech monopolies, autocratic governments, and powers that are out to undermine freedom and democracy. The unprecedented tech revolution - which has merely just started - together with failure of prevailing economic models (a root cause of most problems, e.g. increasing wealth inequality, large-scale environmental destructio…

@aschrijver can you update your answer with a view to addressing’s Karen’s particular concerns?