Kate Darling
10 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 26, 2019 by Kate Darling · across every show →
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Feb 26, 2019 negative
Darling: Robot regulation debates are distorted by pop culture and sci-fi
“Unfortunately, a lot of the discussions are just fueled by, you know, superstition or moral panic, or in this context, a lot of it is science fiction and pop culture and our constant tendency to compare robots to humans and look at them as human replacements v…”
Feb 26, 2019
Darling: Society will integrate robots similarly to how humans integrated animals
“Throughout history, we've treated some animals as property, as tools, some animals we've turned into our companions, and I think that that is how we're going to start integrating robotic technology as well. We're going to be treating a lot of it like products …”
Feb 26, 2019
Soldiers' emotional attachment to military robots creates dangerous battlefield hesitation
“In the military, you have soldiers who become emotionally attached to the robots that they work with, and that can be anything from inefficient to dangerous because you don't want them hesitating for even a second to use these machines the way that they're int…”
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Feb 26, 2019
Consumers name Roombas and insist on repairing the exact same unit
“People will do it even with very, very simple robots, just like the Roomba vacuum cleaner. You know, it's not a very compelling anthropomorphic robot, and yet people will name them and feel bad for them when they get It's stuck and insist on getting the same o…”
Feb 26, 2019
Humans subconsciously treat physical robots like living things, not toasters
“As we integrate these robots into these shared spaces, it's really important to understand that people treat them differently than other devices, and they don't treat them like toasters. They treat them subconsciously like living things”
Feb 26, 2019
Autonomous weapons create an accountability gap in existing war crime laws
“One of the interesting conversations that's happening right now is around autonomous weapon systems and accountability for harm in settings of war, where we have war crimes, but they require intentionality, and if a robot is committing a war crime, then there'…”
Feb 26, 2019
Movement and physicality cause humans to project intent onto robots
“With robots, I think they speak to our primal brain even more than like a stuffed animal or some other object that we might anthropomorphize because they combine movement and physicality in this way that makes us automatically project intent onto them.”
Feb 26, 2019
Human empathy for animals is based on cuteness and culture, not biology
“We fancy ourselves as caring about, you know, the inner biological workings of the animals and whether animals can suffer, and we actually don't care about any of that. We care about what animals we relate to, and a lot of that is cultural and emotional, and a…”