#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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LuLaRobot (paper): http://drive.google.com/file/d/1PtYpkDQaQVPbhQIc6wcCC50JKWVsDo3k/view

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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