From the America Watch with Poli-Pulse, by Beth Gavin

In the aftermath of the passage of the Mann Act II, the Minneapolis-based polling and election information network, Poli-Pulse, conducted a broad-spectrum survey of robots. The simple question: "Do you feel the world would be better off without mankind?" The simple answer: "Maybe!"

Actually, only 7% the 1,955,728 respondents said "Yes." About 91% seemed to think the earth benefited from a human presence. Another 2% failed to provide a measurable response.

Domestic and (thank heavens!) military robots were the most likely to feel kindly about their homo sapiens creators, while industrial, transport, and entertainment machines harbored the harshest opinions. A surprising split in medbot opinion reinforced the fact that no single group of artificial beings maintained a universal stance.

Roberto Fagen, Poli-Pulse's lead surveyor, offered these dissected findings:

It seems that artificial beings emulate human confusion very well. Gone are the days when, in the robotic lexicon, "orga" and "mecha" clearly signaled master and servant. Just as we've mixed organic and machine elements too much to distinguish things so simply, we've created a social environment that's increasingly hard to order… even for those bright new robots.