> "People think they want to interact with a robot that totally mimics a human, but they really don’t," Simmons says.

There were those used to try hard, carefully yet hopefully, to learn how robots, computers and "artificial intelligence" might benefit or harm people, especially for those with special needs.

But now I think we're in a harms race.

[FYI, Proto was a magazine published by Harvard Medical School's teaching hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, from 2005-2022.]