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[Psychology and the Singularity] Androids can be more disturbing for human interaction than robots that only minimally resemble human beings The more a robot looks and acts like a human being, the more we begin to treat it as human and more importantly anticipate how it will interact with us. When it fails to do so even in small ways such as jerky movements or inappropriate facial gestures then we feel uncomfortable or disturbed in the same way as interacting with a human being who does show socially appropriate movement or gestures.

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