Japanese Do Not Fear Robots




               The purpose of the article was to inform us as to why westerners fear robots compared to Japanese people that do not.  Japanese people have no fear of robots whatsoever and actually find excitement from the idea to utilize robots.  There are different factors like religion and history that come into play to help explain why there is such a big difference in the way that westerners and Japanese view robots.

               The author points out the idea that westerners “concept of humanity is limited” and challenges the audience to question themselves whether we humans have the right to exploit robots just because we are human and robots are not. The voice the author portrays in this specific example is a sense of frustration by the way he words it in the article saying, “I think it’s time to seriously question…”  The author’s credibility is first established when he goes on to explain how he had been a part of a meeting in which a Japanese professor made the case that Japanese people had more success integrating robots into society because of the religion that they follow. 

The author also voices wonder and curiosity in the article.  Joi Ito brings up the idea of oppression and the fear that is associated with that.  The author states, “I wonder if this fear is almost uniquely Judeo-Christian and might be feeding the Western fear of robots.”  The author then goes on to bring up a hypocritical point about powerful people in the West that have copious amounts of fears about robots ruling humans, but are also trying to build powerful robots at the same time.  The point the author is trying to make is that having negative feelings and emotions towards robots is not going to help society in the end and humanity may be overrated.

Joi Ito is in favor for utilizing robots and feels that humans should start developing respect for robots and be open to having an emotional and spiritual dialogue with all things.  I think the author displayed great Ethos throughout the entire article and the main voice was concern and challenging the audience to start thinking differently about integrating robots into society.  The audience of the article was geared towards people that are very interested in the idea of using robots and examples/reasoning as to why Westerners are not a fan compared to the Japanese people.

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