What Can Sex Robots Teach Kids? | HBR News 561

"For all the brouhaha about climate change, it looks like the most urgent problem is how much women hate men. Maybe we should look into how we could perhaps not teach women to hate men, and then men and women could be happy together — and we could put the robots to more pertinent tasks." "You give your kid a phone, you have just given other people influence over your child. When Google started donating Chromebooks to schools, parents asked whether these things were going to track kids. Oh no, definitely not, we're going to totally respect their privacy. Five years later there was a lawsuit, because they didn't." Brian is joined by Hannah Wallen and Dr Randomercam. A robotics firm is putting a teaching robot called Sally into classrooms, and children will be able to download a portable version to take home for homework. The company was careful to state she shares no designs, blueprints or technology with its parent company, which makes sex dolls. Also this week: a same-sex couple in Ontario are suing their surrogate for around $600,000 after she refused their request to abort at twenty-two weeks, when a scan showed a cleft lip and a minor heart defect. The panel's argument is that this is a strange hill to choose — if your case is that a child with a genetic deviation from the norm shouldn't be born, and your own parental rights rest on a genetic deviation from the norm, you may want to watch where you tread. Plus Kier Starmer's resignation, Dua Lipa's banned books library, and why randomness brings us closer to God. Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online