“In a 1970 article, the Japanese robotics professor Masahiro Mori described what he called the "uncanny valley". He found that robots that were designed to look as human as possible often provoked discomfort in people.”
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- It used to be our imperfect bodies that made us insecure. With AI, it’s our minds as welltheguardian.com · 8 Sept 2026
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