The New Breed - AI and the Rest of the World: Dr. Kate Darling (Research Specialist @ the MIT Media Lab and Author of "The New Breed")(Ep. 91)

Dr. Kate Darling

Dr. Kate Darling, a Research Specialist at the MIT Media Lab and author of The New Breed: What Our History with Animals Reveals about Our Future with Robots, and I sit down to discuss the future of robots and the world. Are they replacements or are they a breed of their own?

Topics:

• Thesis of the New Breed

• What is a robot?

• Do robots think?

• How does this "new breed" fit into society?

• Rights and robots

• The origin of rights and how that relates to robots

• When will AI and robots emerge into society?

• What books have had an impact on Dr. Darling

• What advice Dr. Darling has for teenagers

Resources:

• The Dispossessed  - https://amzn.to/3R87nEb

• Girl Goddess #9 - https://amzn.to/3nBDO0k

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Dr. Kate Darling is a Research Specialist at the MIT Media Lab and author of The New Breed: What Our History with Animals Reveals about Our Future with Robots. Kate’s work looks at the near-term effects of robotic technology, with a particular interest in law, social, and ethical issues. She runs experiments, holds workshops, writes, and speaks about some of the more interesting developments in the world of human-robot interaction, and where we might find ourselves in the future.