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#329 – Kate Darling: Social Robots, Ethics, Privacy and the Future of MIT

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Avatars for the Metaverse - What Are Your Thoughts?

I think when it's done really crudely and crapply, you start to realize, oh, this is like PR people trying to make a friendly version of a surveillance machine. But I mean, that reminds me of the slight clumsiness or significant clumsiness on the initial releases of the avatars for the metaverse. What are your actually thoughts about that? The way the avatars, the way like Mark Zuckerberg looks in that world,.The virtual reality world where you can have like virtual meetings and stuff like that. Like how do we get that right? Do you have thoughts about that?" It's a kind of, it feels like a similar problem to social robotics,

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