Podcast #6: Interviews on Social Responsibility in Robotics and AI

Posted on 04 May 2015 by nsharkey

Interviews with:
Ryan Gariepy, Chief Technical Officer, Clearpath Robotics
Stuart Russell, Professor of Artificial Intelligence, University of California at BerkeleyThis is episode 6 of 6 in the CCW Special that kicks off the new official ICRAC Podcast series.In this episode we discuss the social responsibility of robotics manufactures with Ryan Gariepy, CTO of the Canadian company Clearpath Robotics and with Stuart Russell, Professor of Artificial Intelligence at UC Berkeley in the United States. Both spoke during the CCW.Clearpath Robotics took the bold step of becoming the first robotics company with defense contracts to come forward and support a ban on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems. Ryan tells us why.

Prof. Russell points out that there had been little interest within the AI community to accept social responsibility for its creations – but that is changing. A bit more than two years after this conversation, Stuart Russell presented the “Slaughterbots video“.

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Noel SharkeyPhD, DSc FIET, FBCS CITP FRIN FRSA is Professor of AI and Robotics and Professor of Public Engagement at the University of Sheffield and was an EPSRC Senior Media Fellow (2004-2010).

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