Uploaded October 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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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:
0:00 - Introduction
1:46 - What is a robot?
17:47 - Metaverse
27:09 - Bias in robots
40:51 - Modern robotics
43:24 - Automation
47:46 - Autonomous driving
56:11 - Privacy
59:37 - Google's LaMDA
1:04:24 - Robot animal analogy
1:17:28 - Data concerns
1:35:30 - Humanoid robots
1:54:31 - LuLaRobot
2:03:25 - Ethics in robotics
2:18:46 - Jeffrey Epstein
2:52:21 - Love and relationships

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