Ayanna Howard: Human-Robot Interaction and Ethics of Safety-Critical Systems
January 17, 2020
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Ayanna Howard: Human-Robot Interaction and Ethics of Safety-Critical Systems
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<p>Ayanna Howard is a roboticist and professor at Georgia Tech, director of Human-Automation Systems lab, with research interests in human-robot interaction, assistive robots in the home, therapy gaming apps, and remote robotic exploration of extreme environments.</p>
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<p>00:00 – Introduction<br />
02:09 – Favorite robot<br />
05:05 – Autonomous vehicles<br />
08:43 – Tesla Autopilot<br />
20:03 – Ethical responsibility of safety-critical algorithms<br />
28:11 – Bias in robotics<br />
38:20 – AI in politics and law<br />
40:35 – Solutions to bias in algorithms<br />
47:44 – HAL 9000<br />
49:57 – Memories from working at NASA<br />
51:53 – SpotMini and Bionic Woman<br />
54:27 – Future of robots in space<br />
57:11 – Human-robot interaction<br />
1:02:38 – Trust<br />
1:09:26 – AI in education<br />
1:15:06 – Andrew Yang, automation, and job loss<br />
1:17:17 – Love, AI, and the movie Her<br />
1:25:01 – Why do so many robotics companies fail?<br />
1:32:22 – Fear of robots<br />
1:34:17 – Existential threats of AI<br />