"“I think robots are awesome,” said Woodrow Hartzog, a scholar at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society who specializes in human-robot interactions. “They can be the next great tool for human flourishing, but they can also be programmed to be machines of deceit and manipulation.”
“They’re not just a passive recipient like a website that collects your clicks,” said Hartzog. “Robots, particularly when you invite them into your homes, will have much more detailed pictures of what appeals to us and what doesn’t—and any kind of biases that would be easy for it to exploit.”
“The key comes when you ask the question of whom does the robot serve,” Hartzog said. “If we want them to be loyal to the people that buy them, we’ll need to have a business model where the companies that make them won’t exploit the people that buy the robots or their data by selling them to third parties.”"