The Robot and the Child

A short story about artificial intelligence

James Banta
Lit Up
Published in
3 min readDec 28, 2018

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The robot joined the family when autonomous artificially intelligent humanoid robots were all the fashion. It arrived shiny from the factory of its birth to the waiting extended family living in an upscale community off the Pennsylvania coast. With the excitement novelty creates they used it for as many tasks around the house as they could think of.

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James Banta
Lit Up
Writer for

Interested in the past and future while living now. Driven to write by existential angst and fear of missing out. https://medium.com/@jfbanta