Kate Darling
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first heard Oct 2022
last heard Oct 2022
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I think that animals are a really great thought experiment when we're thinking about AI and robotics because, again, comparing them to humans, that leads us down the wrong path, both because it's not accurate, but also I think for the future, we don't want that.
We want something that's a supplement.
But I think animals, because we've used them throughout history for so many different things, we domesticated them not because they do what we do, but because what they do is different and that's useful.
And it's just like, whether we're talking about companionship, whether we're talking about work integration, whether we're talking about responsibility for harm, there's just so many things we can draw on in that history from these entities that can sense, think, make autonomous decisions and learn.
that are applicable to how we should be thinking about robots and AI.
And the point of the book is not that they're the same thing, that animals and robots are the same.
Obviously, there are tons of differences there.
Like, you can't have a conversation with a squirrel, right?
But the point is... I do it all the time.
Oh, really?
Really?
And dogs, like dogs.
proposed might be at least historically one of the most useful domesticated animals it was a game changer because it revolutionized like what people could do economically etc so i mean just like robots they're going to change they're going to change things economically they're going to change landscapes like cities might even get rebuilt around autonomous vehicles or drones or delivery robots like it
I think just the same ways that animals have really shifted society and society has adapted also to like socially accepting animals as pets.
I think we're going to see very similar things with robots.
So I think it's a useful analogy.
It's not a perfect one, but I think it helps us get away from this idea that robots can, should, or will replace people.
Oh, yeah, the ferrets.
They still do this.
They use ferrets to go into narrow spaces that people can't go into, like a pipe, or they'll use them to run electrical wire.
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