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What do you think would happen if a historian decided to live with a humanoid robot?

Well, historian and AI researcher Emily Kate Genitowski did just that.

So I wrote to the Transit Authority and I said, I really want to buy an annual card for my AI

humanoid robot. In her talk, she explores the future of human-like robots driven by AI,

not through sci-fi or apocalyptic predictions, but through the realities of everyday life.

I walk my dog in the square every morning, and I bring my robot.

And after spending a year with her robot named Tova, she uncovers small but crucial questions

and realizations she believes will shape the trajectory of our future and our history with

AI. What happens when thousands or millions of these robots are shipped all over the world to

different people, different communities that have different perspectives on this, right?

Emily believes we still have time to get it right.

That's coming up right after a short break.

Thank you. That's coming up right after a short break. And now our TED Talk of the Day.

At this moment, it is exactly 10.03 GMT. But it's 12.03 here in Vienna. Why? Britain adopted GMT in 1847 and formally

legislated it in 1880. This decision wasn't born from some overarching philosophical discussion

about the concept of time and location,

it was just practicality. We needed to know when trains would be arriving and departing at any station

along an expansive railroad route. This need rendered local solar times too imprecise

and necessitated our modern-day concept of time zones.

I'm a historian, and I am fascinated by the factors that shape progress surrounding technology.

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