Why Westerners Fear Robots and the Japanese Do Not

> humans are [not] particularly “special.”

Insertion mine, to keep the gist of the quoted sentence. Humans are special, though, depending on how much you value the ability to be concerned about the fundamental nature of the universe and its related truths, and the capability to extract such findings (though we may be frequently wrong...but thankfully can recognize that and course correct).

There's also a lot of ignorance at play. I know an American doctor whose had patients worry about the surgery robot going rogue.