Kate Darling: Social Robotics | Lex Fridman Podcast #98

Kate Darling is a researcher at MIT, interested in social robotics, robot ethics, and generally how technology intersects with society. She explores the emotional connection between human beings and life-like machines, which for me, is one of the most exciting topics in all of artificial intelligence.

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Kate's Website: http://www.katedarling.org/
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OUTLINE:
0:00 - Introduction
3:31 - Robot ethics
4:36 - Universal Basic Income
6:31 - Mistreating robots
17:17 - Robots teaching us about ourselves
20:27 - Intimate connection with robots
24:29 - Trolley problem and making difficult moral decisions
31:59 - Anthropomorphism
38:09 - Favorite robot
41:19 - Sophia
42:46 - Designing robots for human connection
47:01 - Why is it so hard to build a personal robotics company?
50:03 - Is it possible to fall in love with a robot?
56:39 - Robots displaying consciousness and mortality
58:33 - Manipulation of emotion by companies
1:04:40 - Intellectual property
1:09:23 - Lessons for robotics from parenthood
1:10:41 - Hope for future of robotics

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