Ep. 52 - Dr. David Gunkel on Robot Ethics

• Giving Robots Personhood - The Verge
• The Machine Question - book by David
• David Gunkel Twitter homepage
• Mind The Gap article by David
• Shimon - a robot that writes and plays jazz
• “What Is An Author” - article by Michel Foucault
• Sophia - robot given Saudi citizenship
• Paro robot given koseki status in Japan
• Melvin Kranzberg - Six Laws of Technology
• Plato’s Phaedrus
• IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems
• Gunkelweb.com

Ep. 51 - China’s New Citizen Score System

This week, Julie Carpenter and Tom Guarriello discuss the current pilot of the China Citizen Score system, slated for mandatory roll out to all 1.3 billion Chinese in 2020.

• Big data meets Big Brother as China moves to rate its citizens - Wired article
• Klout - social network power ratings
• Nosedive - Netflix Black Mirror Season 3, Episode 1
• Super Sad True Love Story - Gary Shteyngart novel on Amazon
• The Prisoner - 1967 British TV series

Ep. 50 - Dr. Kate Devlin - Sex, Robots, and AI

• Kate’s Wikipedia page
• Kate’s Twitter page
• Kate’s TEDx Warwick talk on Sex Robots
• RealDoll Homepage
• NY Times article: The Trouble With Sex Robots

Ep. 49 - Richard Yonck on Emotional AI

• Richard’s new book, Heart of the Machine: Our Future in a World of Artificial Emotional Intelligence
• Emotion AI Summit panel with Richard, Rana el-Kaliouby, and John C. Havens
• Rodney Brooks article, The Seven Deadly Sins of Predicting the Future of AI
• Gartner Technology Hype Cycle diagram
• Narrative Competency and the Massive Hermeneutical Background, Shaun Gallagher
• Women in AI - ~46:00 mark in this episode
• The IEEE Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems

Ep. 48 - Robophobia

• Hurricane Harvey Red Cross Donation
• Best Friends animal rescue donation
• Robophobia newspaper article
• Aimee Mann robot video
• Rodney Brooks Techcrunch MIT conference video
• Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom
• Oxford study of job automation
• Wired ATM and automation article
• TYME Wikipedia page
• Y2K Wikipedia page
• Modern Farmer magazine
• Precision agriculture Wikipedia page
• Steve Wozniak rethinks “existential risk” claim, Wired Magazine
• Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots - Flaming Lips video
• IEEE Initiative for Ethical Considerations in AI
• Negative Attitude Towards Robots scale questionnaire

Ep. 47 - Dr. Steve Omohundro on AI, Robots, and Empathy

• Steve’s Homepage
• Reinforcement and Inverse Reinforcement Learning
• Kate Darling on robots and empathy
  • Video
  • NPR Interview
• Video: Boston Dynamics robots getting knocked down, but getting up again!
• Eliza, first chatbot
• Replika
  • Julie Twitter conversation about Replika

Show Notes:

Ep. 46 - John Danaher on Artificial Offspring and our Collective Afterlife

• John’s article: Why we should create artificial offspring: meaning and the collective afterlife
• John’s webpage
• John edited this forthcoming book, which includes a chapter by Julie Carpenter: Robot Sex
• Article that inspired Spielberg’s film AI: Super-Toys Last All Summer Long

Ep. 45 - Chatbots for Mental Health Services

Tom and Dr. Julie Carpenter discuss the use of chatbot programs in mental health service delivery.

• Karim provides support for Syrian children caught up in a brutal war
• Catfish: fake personal profiles
• Inside Out - Pixar film portraying five of the six basic emotions (which one is missing? Let us know!)
• Scott McCloud 6 Emotions image
• Paul Ekman
• Affectiva
• Chinese people turn to Xiaicefor sympathetic companionship
• Darpa 2014 study: chatbot for military personnel
• Eliza
• U.S. Veterans suicide rate: approximately 20/day

Show Notes

• Dr. Bryson's Homepage
• Dr.Bryson's Reddit AMA
• Sackler Lectures, including referenced talk on recidivism
• Principles of Robotics, update/rewrite of Asimov's laws
• Children abusing robot in experiment

Show Notes

• IKEA Article
• Super Sad True Love Story
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