Kate Darling
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first heard Oct 2022
last heard Oct 2022
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And I agree with you that I would like to see more of that, especially when it comes to
existing biases that we know or, you know, that I think there's the low hanging fruit of companies that don't even think about it at all and aren't talking to the right people and aren't getting the full information.
And then there's companies that are just like doing the safe thing and giving consumers what they want now.
But to be really forward looking and be really successful, I think you have to make some judgment calls about what the future is going to be.
Yes.
I mean, gender is a minefield, but it's really hard to get people to not gender a robot in some way.
So if you don't give it a name or you give it an ambiguous voice, people will just choose something.
And maybe that's better than just entrenching something that you've decided is best.
But I do think it can be helpful on the like anthropomorphism engagement level to give it attributes that people identify with.
That's a good point.
Well, they've deployed the robots and people are like, oh my God, the cops are using a robot dog.
And so they have this PR nightmare.
And so they're like, oh, yeah.
Okay, maybe we should hire some HRI people.
Oh, yeah.
The video is for sure that they put out.
Well, I think they became aware.
I think that in the beginning, they were really, really focused on just the engineering.
I mean, they're at the forefront of robotics, like locomotion and stuff.
And then when they started doing the videos, I think that was kind of a labor of love for
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