In 2001, Steven Spielberg directed a film named A.I., Artificial Intelligence. The overall premise of the film was that the human race had been diminished greatly, and robots called Mecha were being created in order to cater to the remaining human race. The Mecha were built to emulate human emotions. One family obtains a child-like humanoid robot named David  in order replace their comatose, severely ill child, and are dealing with the repercussions of such an invention, especially when their original child is healed . In the end, David is abandoned by his new family for the original son, who essentially frames him, and is stuck trying to understand why his “mother” did not love him.

A.I. exemplifies the repercussions of creating robots with the ability to have emotions, and explores the emotional aspect of singularity, as opposed to the intellectual. By creating autonomous robots with the ability to emulate emotion, the human race risks challenging other human beings for them to return whatever emotions the robot has towards them, and with dire consequences.

The following YouTube clip is the abandonment scene from the film. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYgWHwMm9Uo