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The Owen Jones Podcast

My mum on whether robots will take over the world

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

So I thought, why not have a chat with my mum about whether robots take over the world? She's got a new book out called 'Living With Robots' - I know I'm promoting my mum's book here, it's a one off I promise! - so we talk about what robots really are, what they can actually do, what their limits on, will they ever destroy us all, or at the very least take our jobs? Could they help build a new and better society?


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0:00.0

It's having to be a range of people on this channel from Peter Hitchens to John McDonnell

0:15.2

to Sean Faye to Paloma Faye for all sorts, it's just a random eclectic range of people

0:22.5

and now I'm interviewing my mother. Hi. Hi. Well, sorry to be such a legged down after

0:29.7

all these famous people. No, I think we've scaled new heights. We'll be fine. Well, it's

0:38.1

great now because I can get my revenge for accumulated adolescent grievances. Well, I could

0:45.4

too. Oh, let's not go there. I've got more to lose in this mutually assured destruction

0:53.0

of just realised. So what I was going to do, just to explain. So basically, some people

0:59.7

would be like, oh my god, interviewing your mother on your channel, very nepotistic, what

1:03.4

you're doing there then. And firstly, I thought as a nice one off, quite interesting in

1:09.8

of itself, but more importantly, my mum has a very interesting book out and I did want

1:14.7

to do something on this whole, there it is, put it, there we go, living with robots where

1:20.2

every action human needs to know. I did want to do something on this and actually, various

1:26.0

people like we should interview your mother about her new book for start giving you going

1:28.8

to talk about robotics because my mum is a professor in all of that, aren't you? I am. Yes,

1:37.0

I've been working in it for quite a long time actually. I started doing robotics back

1:41.0

in what, 1999 or so. So that's quite a long time doing robotics. Oh no, I was doing robotics

1:47.6

earlier than that. I've been doing robotics for, well, since the early 90s. So yeah,

1:53.5

I'm a, a veteran of robotism, I suppose, by now. Including doing computing stuff back

2:00.6

in, because for those who don't know, I was born in Sheffield and I'm a mom tour tip, which

2:06.2

is now Sheffield Hallon, that was then Sheffield Polytechnic. And you did computing stuff

2:10.8

in the 70s when it was these big silly machines along this laptop that I was staring at.

2:15.8

Well, yeah, I first started working for what was then a British computer company when we

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