Lex Fridman Podcast: #329 – Kate Darling: Social Robots, Ethics, Privacy and the Future of MIT

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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