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The debate over artificial intelligence, the broad term for computer systems that mimic human reasoning, is being shaped less by data than by cultural instinct.
Asian cultures hold a markedly different view of technologies that the West tends to regard as threatening. The argument: America could learn something from Astro Boy.
The Japanese manga character, a robot child who is helpful rather than dangerous, became a pop-culture fixture across Asia because it cast machines as sympathetic. That is not a small distinction.
The stories people grow up with shape what feels natural or frightening later. The Western archive runs the other direction.
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