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91. The New Breed - AI and the Rest of the World: Dr. Kate Darling (Research Specialist @ the MIT Media Lab and Author of "The New Breed")
32 minutes Posted Jul 3, 2022 at 9:00 pm.
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Dr. Kate Darling, a Research Specialist at the MIT Media Lab and author of The New Breed: What Our History with Animals Reveals about Our Future with Robots, and I sit down to discuss the future of robots and the world. Are they replacements or are they a breed of their own?

Topics:

  • Thesis of the New Breed
  • What is a robot?
  • Do robots think?
  • How does this "new breed" fit into society?
  • Rights and robots
  • The origin of rights and how that relates to robots
  • When will AI and robots emerge into society?
  • What books have had an impact on Dr. Darling
  • What advice Dr. Darling has for teenagers


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Dr. Kate Darling is a Research Specialist at the MIT Media Lab and author of The New Breed: What Our History with Animals Reveals about Our Future with Robots. Kate’s work looks at the near-term effects of robotic technology, with a particular interest in law, social, and ethical issues. She runs experiments, holds workshops, writes, and speaks about some of the more interesting developments in the world of human-robot interaction, and where we might find ourselves in the future.

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