Fears about robotics have been explored in our research. The automatic and automated text analysis tools developed at Federal Research Center «Computer Science and Control» of the Russian Academy of Sciences made it possible to examine the material of network discussions on robotics elaboration and usage. Our study was conducted on the experimental and background corpora of about 600 thousand comments of VKontakte discussions in total. At the first stage, it was revealed that robotics is a rather strong frustrator for the mass consciousness. Therefore, as a noteworthy subject the mass consciousness fears of robotics were scrutinized at the second stage of the study. The analysis of text structures with phobic semantics from an experimental corpus via specially trained Large Language Model has shown that, as a rule, the causes of fears of robotics are indistinct, and the fears themselves are a sort of nonspecific alertness. For most people, robotics probably still remains a vague matter and an item for projecting of the unknown future fear and of the poor control.
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