Robots Call the Shots

Big Picture Science

Science, Technology

4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2010

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Dr. Robot, I presume? Your appendix may be removed by motor-driven, scalpel-wielding mechanical hands one day. Robots are debuting in the medical field… as well as on battlefields. And they’re increasingly making important decisions – on their own. But can we teach robots right from wrong? Find out why the onslaught of silicon intelligence has prompted a new field of robo-ethics. Plus, robo-geologists: NASA’s vision for autonomous robots in space. Guests: P.W. Singer - Director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative at the Brookings Institution, and the author of Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century Wendell Wallach - Chair of a technology and ethics working group for Yale University’s Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, and the co-author of Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong Pablo Garcia - – Principal engineer working on medical robotics at SRI International, Menlo Park, California Robert Anderson - Planetary geologist, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Robyn Asimov - Daughter of author Isaac Asimov Descripción en español Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:48.0	That's Wired Science wherever you get your podcasts. Aristotle said that we make war so that we can live in peace.
1:07.0	One of the many paradoxes of entering into battle.
1:10.0	Could another paradox be that technologies that save lives ultimately result in producing more wars?
1:15.6	That may be because the landscape of wars changing.
1:18.3	Increasingly human soldiers are being replaced by unmanned machines.
1:21.9	And there are different kinds.
1:23.0	Some are military bots controlled by soldiers with joysticks.
1:26.0	Others are semi-autonomous robots.
1:28.0	Some are fully autonomous drones.
1:31.0	This isn't the future of war.
1:32.0	It's happening now on the battlefield.
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