Here is what I imagine. I imagine people will be less constrained when confronted with a humanoid robot than they would be with a real human.
Just like social media has made people speak freely to their phone things that they might think twice about before saying face to face. Social media removed the ‘always be polite’ filter. And that has had many negative consequences for many people.
I could easily see myself looking at an annoying robot on my front porch and thinking if he tries to sell me his AMWAY soap one more time, I’m going to just cap him with a sledge hammer.
We already deal with those silly “cleaning robots” on grocery store floors.
It was an interesting novelty at first—now people just ignore them and walk around them.
Humans are amazingly adaptable and most will not have emotional reactions to robots at all—the robots will just be part of the background noise/scenery of life.
Dystopia scenario:
Human attacks robot with a sledge hammer.
Robot says:
“You are apparently having a mental health incident at this time. Local law enforcement and paramedics have been notified and are on the way to give you the treatment you need.
My facial recognition indicates your name is _____ and you are __ years old and your current address is _______. This is the third time you have shown behaviors outside the norm for our community. I have taken the liberty of withdrawing your fine of ten ObamaCoins from your bank account.”
Lol.