What is safety? Who decides, and how do they do it? Turns out, safety isn’t just wearing a seatbelt or looking both ways before you cross a road. It’s a heavily regulated, thought out system of protecting everyday citizens from unnecessary danger. From U.S. Navy subs to Carnegie Mellon, the National Robotics Engineering Center and now Edge Case Research, Dr. Phillip Koopman has long been the tip of the intellectual spear defining the bar for safety—and raising it. But what happens when Alex Roy asks the question no one in AI or robotics wants to answer?

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