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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

Daily: Paranoid About Androids? - Living with Robots

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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News, Society & Culture, Politics, Government

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Robots make our cars, deliver our food, and soon they’ll be commonplace in our homes and at work, but what will this future look like? How will the robot-human dynamic play out? MIT researcher, expert on robot ethics and author of The New Breed Dr Kate Darling talks to Andrew Harrison about the emotional connection between human beings and life-life machines, if we’re going to face a robot rebellion, and why robots will need rights, just like animals…  “People tend to treat robots as if they’re alive, even though we know they aren’t.” “Robots pull on our heart-strings because we project ourselves and our emotions onto them.” “Sci-fi loves to create robots that look and act just like humans, but we are not at the stage that yet.” “We’re gradually starting to see robots come into our workplace and homes which is really exciting.” “I see lots of problems with integrating robots into our society, but they don’t come from robots rising up against us.” “There are videos online of robots being treated badly, and quite a strong backlash came from that.” “R2D2 is this glorified trashcan on wheels and yet they are the most loved robot ever.” https://www.patreon.com/bunkercast https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/309/309409/the-new-breed/9780241352991.html  Presented and produced by Andrew Harrison. Producers: Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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My name is Stan. I'm at. Nice to meet you. So you took up photography where? I've always loved

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photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.

0:11.8

Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college?

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I loved going to college.

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It's good you can retrain and do something.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Let's talk about working, learning, saving and making the most of living longer.

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Phoenix Group is the UK's largest long-term savings and retirement business.

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From those happy greetings at the door to the warm cuddles on the sofa

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look after theirs with dental life. Pick up dental life in the pet food aisle. Hello, welcome to the bunker daily, I'm Andrew Harrison. In 2016, the Chinese artist's Sunuwa the industrial robot arm programmed to collect and try to contain its own hydraulic fluid as it

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leaked out onto the museum floor. If too much liquid escaped, the robot would cease to function.

1:31.0

The artists gave the machine the capability to dance for spectators.

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It could scratch an itch, bow and shake and ass shake. And early on at its time at the museum it was able to do just that. But as time went by and more of the

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viscous deep red liquid that it depended on bled out onto the museum floor, the robot had

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less and less energy. Its final days in 2019 were described as a desperate never-ending

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cycle between sustaining life and bleeding out. And people got really upset. A

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Facebook page called the Neahist of all things said no piece of art has ever

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emotionally affected me the way this robot armpiece has. Sun Yuan and Penhue

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had created the artwork as a comment on how humans kill ourselves

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