Some people have even said that this idea that artificial super intelligence would want to kill us all is a straight up project projection of this male dominance. We do a lot of projecting of human qualities onto these machines. And we might if we don't stop to think about it, but we don't have to. There's a baby harp seal robot that's very cuddly. Those actually exist. I wouldn't want to try to completely replicate your Pomeranian because we could never get that right. But any robot that looks kind of like something that people are familiar with, but isn't quite like it doesn't have to be a dog, but it could be like a baby har
Are robots going to take over? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson & comic co-host Negin Farsad explore our future with artificial intelligence by looking at our past with animals with robot ethicist and author of A New Breed, Dr. Kate Darling.
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