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

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Animals and Robots in AI and Robotics

I think that animals are a really great thought experiment when we're thinking about AI and robotics, because again, this comparing them to humans leads us down the wrong path. There's just so many things we can draw on in that history from these entities that can sense, think, make autonomous decisions and learn. They all have all kinds of uses. Like the ox that you proposed might be at least historically one of the most useful domesticated animals. And he's trickier with the language stuff, but we'll get into that too.

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