"Be Right Back" - Do We Know What We're Getting Into?

Ash1 wasn't a great boyfriend. At least he wasn't depicted that way. When he died, of course Martha grieved, but as an audience, we have to wonder how much of that was due to "true" love and how much was simple loneliness. In all honesty, he was always on his phone, he didn't anticipate her needs, and the only real attempt he made at bonding with her was sex.

In this way, Ash2 could be considered the "better" boyfriend. He was very interested in learning about Martha, he did everything she wanted him to, and he even looked more physically attractive. On the surface, why not have a better software, pseudo-human form of ourselves?

Besides the ontological and semantic issues posed by having this "better" version of ourselves (how human are they?), there are very real practical issues. Should these robots be paid? What should we do with them? Can we put them in prison, kill them, give them voting rights? Can they reproduce? In what ways will they replace humans?

The overall effects of these "beings" may very easily be negative. We will surely be more dubious (and paranoid) about being fooled; we will be inherently skeptical about everyone person we meet about whether or not they are biologically human. Also, the effects on children appear to be very negative. Children are much more aggressive around human-like robots (see http://www.businessinsider.com/why-humanoid-robots-could-be-dangerous-2016-5).

Another simple objection is the threat of hacking. How many times are things hacked? What would stop someone from hacking these androids and turning them evil? Admittedly, people are evil without having computer properties, but the fact that these "beings" are interconnected through software and Internet posts implies that many of them can be accessed quite easily and quickly. We as humans have a digital element to us, but we do have a way of escaping the digital. If we wanted, we could throw away all digital devices and live as a subsistence farmer completely off the grid. Of course, the previous information on the Internet about us will persist, but we can choose to lessen our digital footprint (and possibly delete much of it, although never all of it) and live more with our biological side. The androids like Ash2 have no way of doing that: they are purely digital, completely computer, and therefore, extremely vulnerable.

This seems to be a dangerous technology: non-human things learning and growing very close to how humans think and behave. In some ways, it can be fascinating and possibly beneficial, but as the uncanny valley tells me, I'm leaning more toward the fear of these "beings" the closer they get to us. My intuition tells me this is dangerous, and if we learned anything from Frankenstein, we should be very careful about playing God.