he’d made Pleo in a way that he thought would evoke empathy—giving it the capacity to respond to unwanted touch or movements by limping, trembling, whimpering, and even showing distrust for a while after such an incident. “Whether it’s alive or not, that’s exhibiting sociopathic behavior,” he said, referring to the way the tech bloggers attacked Pleo. But it also made him wonder whether his decision to imbue the bot with such lifelike features had somehow invited this kind of treatment.
"they do to us what they'd like to do to you"
