#329 – Kate Darling: Social Robots, Ethics, Privacy and the Future of MIT
Kate Darling is a researcher at MIT Media Lab interested in human robot interaction and robot ethics. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) - Introduction
(07:57) - What is a robot?
(23:57) - Metaverse
(33:19) - Bias in robots
(47:02) - Modern robotics
(49:34) - Automation
(53:57) - Autonomous driving
(1:02:22) - Privacy
(1:05:48) - Google's LaMDA
(1:10:35) - Robot animal analogy
(1:23:38) - Data concerns
(1:41:40) - Humanoid robots
(2:00:42) - LuLaRobot
(2:09:36) - Ethics in robotics
(2:24:57) - Jeffrey Epstein
(2:58:31) - Love and relationships