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🗓️ 20 May 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Introducing Kate Darling on human-machine partnerships from Working Smarter.

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For our first episode of Working Smarter we’re talking to Kate Darling, a research scientist at MIT’s Media Lab and author of The New Breed: What Our History with Animals Reveals about Our Future with Robots.

Darling has spent more than a decade studying human-robot interaction through a social, legal, and ethical lens. She’s interested in how people relate to robots and digital constructs, socially and emotionally—whether it’s an AI-powered chatbot or one of the many robotic dinosaurs that Kate has in her home.

Hear Darling talk about the bonds we’re already forming with our smart—and not-so-smart—devices at work and at home, and why our relationship with animals might be a better way to frame the interactions we’re having with increasingly intelligent machines.

Show notes:

Visit katedarling.org to learn more about Kate Darling and her work.
The New Breed: What Our History with Animals Reveals about Our Future with Robots is available now.
The two papers mentioned in this episode are "Bonding with a Couchsurfing Robot: The Impact of Common Locus on Human-Robot Bonding In-the-Wild" by Joost Mollen, Peter van der Putten, and Kate Darling, and "How does my robot know who I am?: Understanding the Impact of Education on Child-Robot Relationships" by Daniella DiPaola.
Read the full transcript of this interview on our website.

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Working Smarter is a new podcast from Dropbox about how AI is changing the way we work and get stuff done.

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This show would not be possible without the talented team at Cosmic Standard, namely: our producers Samiah Adams and Aja Simpson, technical director Jacob Winik, and executive producer Eliza Smith. Special thanks to Benjy Baptiste for production assistance, our marketing and PR consultant Meggan Ellingboe, and our illustrators, Fanny Luor and Justin Tran. Our theme song was created by Doug Stuart. Working Smarter is hosted by Matthew Braga.

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0:00.0	I am the proud caretaker of two large beautiful cats, Kubrick and Moose.
0:11.0	Kubrick is orange and white and extremely fluffy,
0:14.4	while moose is your typical salt and pepper tabby. They're adorable and I love
0:18.5	them but that love comes at a cost. My home is perpetually covered in hair. It's on my bed, on my clothes, I find
0:27.3	clumps of it just floating midair. I watch each day as cat hair tumbleweeds migrate across the floor.
0:35.0	So a few years ago I did the only sensible thing.
0:39.0	I bought a robot vacuum.
0:41.0	It's a squat round disk and I call it Yufi.
0:45.0	It's literally just the brand name, but it stuck.
0:49.0	Yufi can't do everything.
0:51.0	It struggles with my rug.
0:52.0	It can't clean the couch, and my cats love the couch. But like any good partner, we both have our strengths.
0:59.0	Yufe can slip underneath various obstacles with relative ease. It's methodical when it comes to the
1:04.2	baseboards, and most importantly it keeps the tumbleweeds at bay. It means that when I
1:09.7	do have to vacuum, there's less for me to do, and it takes less time than I'd otherwise spend.
1:15.9	If you listen to our last podcast, remotely curious, then you know that this is something we think
1:20.0	about a lot.
1:21.8	Not robot vacuums per se, but having the right tools to do our jobs.
1:26.5	At Dropbox, where I work, we're on this mission to design a more enlightened way of working.
1:31.6	Early on, that meant making it easier for people
1:33.7	to store their stuff in the cloud.
1:35.6	More recently, it's meant rethinking the very nature
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