{"id":13569,"date":"2026-04-08T10:30:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T09:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/technophilosoph.com\/2026\/04\/08\/is-the-abuse-of-robots-and-ai-by-humans-acceptable\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T10:33:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T09:33:47","slug":"is-the-abuse-of-robots-and-ai-by-humans-acceptable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technophilosoph.com\/en\/2026\/04\/08\/is-the-abuse-of-robots-and-ai-by-humans-acceptable\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the Abuse of Robots and AI by Humans Acceptable?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

LinkedIn user Nick Dimichino<\/a> recently witnessed some disturbing behavior on a flight. He observed another passenger using Claude, the chatbot developed by the San Francisco-based company Anthropic, and verbally abusing the chatbot for three hours. <\/p>\n\n

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Would we want to hire or associate with someone we knew beat, rape, or abuse robots? We certainly wouldn\u2019t want to hire or associate with someone who tortures cats or beats their children or partner. We would probably call the police. But what about robots or AI language models? <\/p>\n\n

Children tend to be quite rough with voice assistants like Siri or Alexa. Since these assistants always respond in a friendly and helpful manner, children test their limits by hurling increasingly harsh insults at them. Good parents, however, want their children to say \u201cplease\u201d and \u201cthank you.\u201d But do you really have to do that with an AI or a robot? Especially when we hear from companies that these polite phrases consume processing time\u2014and thus energy and cooling water. Environmentally conscious parents who also value politeness find themselves in a dilemma here. <\/p>\n\n

Japanese robotics researchers observed children in a shopping mall blocking and mistreating a service robot by standing in its way and even starting to hit it. The Japanese researchers\u2019 solution to prevent this was to program the robot to seek out the presence of adults as soon as small children approached it. This is because adults tend to deter children from acting aggressively toward the robot. <\/p>\n\n

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