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

nsharkey — Mon, 04 May 2015 19:33:37 +0000

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Interviews with:
Ryan Gariepy, Chief Technical Officer, Clearpath Robotics
Stuart Russell, Professor of Artificial Intelligence, University of California at Berkeley

This 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).

Podcast Episode #1: Interview with Michael Meier, Head of the US Delegation to the CCW

nsharkey — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 10:09:56 +0000

This is episode 1 of 6 in the CCW Special that kicks off the new official ICRAC Podcast series.

In this episode, after a general introduction explaining the Concentional on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) and Lethal Autonomous Weapons, your host, Professor Noel Sharkey, chair of ICRAC, interviews Michael Meier, the head of the United States delegation to the CCW. DOD directive 3000.09 and US opening statement to the CCW.

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

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Podcast Episode #1: Interview with Michael Meier, Head of the US Delegation to the CCW

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