Ronald Arkin (the robot ethicist in the article) says, “You see this in sci-fi: Star Trek, Knight Rider. It’s the natural progression.”

Yikes. IMO, the presence of something futuristic on popular TV does not establish it as something to naturally progress to. I look to (good) sci-fi for ideas and thought experiments and, often, cautionary tales.

I don't have a big problem with the privacy issue here, because Amazon's ecosystem is opt-in. But I hope that ethicist is more critical-thinking than the snippet in the interview paints him to be.