Robots and AI

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Why are we talking about robots?

Answer (2 - 5 year olds)

Robots are special man-made machines that can do useful jobs for us.

Some robots can be used by doctors to look after sick people. Some robots can travel to faraway planets and help us learn amazing new things about those places. Some robots can even build cars, planes and other things in factories.

Robots are being used to do more and more different things and so it’s important for us to ask big questions about how we treat robots and whether there are any things they shouldn’t be used for.

Talking about robots also gets us asking exciting questions about humans and what makes us special, and what amazing things robots could be used for in the future.

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Answer (5 - 7 year olds)

Robots are special man-made machines that can follow instructions to carry out particular jobs and actions.

Robots can be very useful because they can do all sorts of things that would be very boring or dangerous for humans. For example, some robots can be used by doctors to do very delicate operations and save lives, some can travel to faraway planets and bring back new information about those places, and others can be used to build things like cars in factories.

As robots become more and more common, and get used for more and more jobs, we need to ask big questions about how we treat them and whether there are any things for which we should not use them.

That might sound quite serious, but talking about robots also gets us asking exciting questions about humans and what makes us special, as well as what amazing things robots could be used for in the future.

We’ll be adding more big questions on this topic, so keep checking this page!

Answer (7 - 11 year olds)

Robots are special man-made machines that can be programmed to follow a set of instructions to carry out particular jobs and actions.

Robots can be very useful because they can do all sorts of things that may be very boring or dangerous for humans. For example, some can be controlled by doctors to do very delicate operations, some can be used to collect information from distant planets, and others can be used to build things in factories.

As robots become more and more common, and get used for more and more complicated tasks, we need to ask big questions about how we treat them, how we use them and whether it is a good idea. For example, is it OK for them to be used as dangerous weapons in wars, or in ways that mean people lose their jobs as they get replaced by robots?

But talking about robots can also lead us to exciting, interesting questions like what it means to be human and what amazing things robots could be used to do in the future. Whether the questions are big and a bit scary, or big and exciting, it’s important that we ask them and explore the answers.

We’ll be adding more big questions on this topic, so keep checking this page!

Why are we talking about robots?

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Welcome! This is a space for you to explore questions about Science, Religion, Robots and AI?

Questions & Answers

Why are we talking about robots?

Answer (2 - 5 year olds)

Answer (5 - 7 year olds)

Answer (7 - 11 year olds)

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