Kate Darling: Why we have an emotional connection to robots
Kate Darling: Warum wir eine emotionale Verbindung zu Robotern haben
Kate Darling investigates the relationship between humans and robots -- now, and in the future. Full bio
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a baby dinosaur robot upside down.
Baby-Dino-Roboter kopfüber halten.
that I had ordered,
das ich mir bestellt hatte.
because I've always loved robots.
denn ich liebe Roboter.
technical features.
technische Features.
und eine Infrarotkamera
was a tilt sensor,
so I was showing it off to my friend,
zeigte ich ihn daher einer Freundin,
See what it does."
Schau was er macht."
the theatrics of this robot
das Agieren des Roboters an,
to make it stop crying.
damit er zu heulen aufhörte.
a weird experience for me.
seltsame Erfahrung für mich.
maternal person at the time.
nicht besonders mütterlich.
a mother, nine months ago,
Mutter geworden bin,
when you hold them upside down.
gehaltene Babies sich auch wehren.
was also interesting
war auch interessant,
how this machine worked,
wie diese Maschine funktioniert,
compelled to be kind to it.
veranlasst, lieb zu ihr zu sein.
nachgegangen bin.
was that my treatment of this machine
dass mein Umgang mit dieser Maschine
in my living room,
in meinem Wohnzimmer war
integrating robots into our lives,
immer mehr Roboter integrieren,
might actually have consequences,
Konsequenzen haben könnte.
is that it's not just me.
dass das nicht nur mich betrifft.
reported that the United States military
dass das US-amerikanische Militär
that defused land mines.
Landminen entschärfen sollte.
was it was shaped like a stick insect
funktionierte er so,
around a minefield on its legs,
auf seinen Beinen herumlief
one of the legs would blow up,
eine Mine trat und ein Bein explodierte,
um mehr Minen zu finden.
to blow up more mines.
of this testing exercise
beschloss ihn abzublasen,
drag itself along the minefield.
wie er sich über das Feld schleppt.
a hardened military officer
abgehärteten Militäroffizier
by science fiction and pop culture
Science-Fiction und Popkultur geprägt
hardwired to project intent and life
programmiert Absicht und Leben
that seems autonomous to us.
unserer Umgebung zu projizieren.
of robots like they're alive.
alle Arten von Robotern wie Lebewesen.
erhalten Namen.
with gun salutes.
even with very simple household robots,
mit einfachen Hausrobotern machen,
around your floor to clean it,
die unseren Boden säubert,
around on its own
when it gets stuck under the couch.
wenn sie unter dem Sofa feststeckt.
specifically to evoke this response,
um genau diese Reaktionen herbeizurufen
Gesichtern und Bewegungen,
subconsciously associate
als Gemütszustand verstanden werden.
genannt Mensch-Roboter-Interaktion,
called human-robot interaction
at Stanford University found out
an der Stanford-Universität heraus,
berühren zu müssen.
a robot's private parts.
respond to the cues given to them
Maschinen reagieren,
where robots are everywhere.
wo Roboter überall sind.
from behind factory walls.
und unseren Haushalten an.
and make autonomous decisions and learn
und lernen können,
analogy we have for this
mit Haustieren.
we started to domesticate animals,
begannen wir Haustiere zu halten,
and weaponry and companionship.
Waffen oder Begleiter.
some animals like tools or like products,
wie Werkzeug oder Ware,
we've treated with kindness
as our companions.
in unserer Gesellschaft aufnahmen.
to integrate robots in similar ways.
Roboter gleichermaßen zu integrieren.
mit Roboteringenieuren weiß ich,
from working with roboticists,
robots that can feel anything.
empfindungsfähige Roboter zu bauen.
für sie und das zählt,
robots into these shared spaces,
Roboter in unseren Alltag zu integrieren,
treat them differently than other devices,
als normale Geräte behandeln werden,
who becomes emotionally attached
an seinen Roboterkollegen bindet,
from inefficient to dangerous.
it can actually be useful
connection to robots.
zu Robotern zu fördern.
with autistic children
für autistische Kinder,
that we haven't seen previously,
Art und Weise beschäftigen,
kids in learning with new results.
um Kinder beim Lernen zu unterstützen.
can help doctors and patients
Roboter können im Gesundheitswesen
and with dementia patients.
bei dementen Patienten verwendet.
being at a party
über diesen Roboter
robots instead of human care."
Roboter statt Menschen als Pfleger geben."
ist sie komplett richtig,
it's not what this robot replaces.
hier etwas anderes.
we can't use real animals
echten Tiere verwenden können,
them more like an animal than a device.
wie ein Tier als ein Gerät behandeln.
connection to robots
zu Robotern anzuerkennen,
areas of people's lives.
des persönlichen Lebens werden.
if your child's teddy bear robot
wenn der Teddybär Ihres Kindes
has compelling in-app purchases?
verlockende in-App-Angebote hat?
consumer protection and privacy.
und Verbraucherschutz.
mit diesen Maschinen bedeutend.
these machines could matter.
initial experience I had
mit meinem Freund Hannes Gassert.
with my friend Hannes Gassert.
of these baby dinosaur robots
for about an hour.
spielen und interagieren.
a hammer and a hatchet
einen Hammer und ein Beil
and kill the robots.
zu quälen und zu töten.
a little more dramatic
dramatischer als erwartet,
es über das Herz brachte
would even so much as strike
and at some point, we said,
wenn ihr den eines anderen Teams zerstört."
if you destroy another team's robot."
They couldn't do it.
a hatchet to one of them."
mit dem Beil auf einen."
and he took the hatchet,
as he brought the hatchet down
zuckte zusammen als er das Beil
half-serious moment of silence in the room
halb ernste Stille im Raum
interesting experience.
study, obviously,
keine kontrollierte Studie,
die ich am MIT zusammen
later research that I did at MIT
Cynthia Breazal durchführte.
and smash these HEXBUGs
um diese HEXBUGs zu zerschlagen,
lifelike way, like insects.
that people are drawn to,
zu wählen, was sympathisch wirkt,
was that high-empathy people
dass empathischere Menschen
größeren Forschungsarbeit ist.
that there may be a connection
dass es eine Verbindung gibt
Tendenzen der Probanden
of human-robot interaction
der Mensch-Roboter-Interaktion
people's empathy?"
menschliches Mitgefühl verändern?"
from kicking a robotic dog,
eines Robohundes abzuhalten,
more likely to kick a real dog?
einen echten Hund treten würde?
but it's on a completely new level
über Gewalt in Videospielen,
that we respond more intensely to
reagieren wir intensiver
that are designed to mimic life,
for violent behavior
Gewalt auszuleben,
the potential to impact human behavior,
menschliche Verhaltensmuster verändern.
to impact social norms,
soziale Normen zu beeinflussen,
around what we can and can't do
was wir tun und nicht tun dürfen
might matter for us.
kann für uns wichtig sein.
we end up changing our rules,
come to a new understanding of ourselves.
uns selbst besser zu verstehen.
over the past 10 years
eher wenig über Technologie gelernt,
a robot on the battlefield,
einen Roboter im Schlachtfeld zu retten,
to harm a robotic baby dinosaur,
einem mechanischen Babydino zu schaden,
and gears and algorithms.
Motoren, Gewinde und Algorithmen.
unserer eigenen Menschlichkeit.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Kate Darling - Robot ethicistKate Darling investigates the relationship between humans and robots -- now, and in the future.
Why you should listen
Robots are taking increasingly bigger roles in life and business -- moving well beyond manufacturing and into transportation, education, medicine, care for the elderly, our offices and our homes. But ethics and law haven't caught up. Kate Darling, a pioneer in these fields, is helping quicken the pace.
A leading expert in robot ethics, Darling is a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab where she investigates social robotics and conducts experimental studies on human-robot interaction. Darling explores the emotional connection between people and life-like inventions, seeking to influence technology design and policy direction. Her writing and research anticipate difficult questions that lawmakers, engineers and the wider public must address as human-robot relationships evolve in the coming decades.
While her background is in intellectual property and law and economics, Darling's passion for technology and robots led her to interdisciplinary fields. She's a former Fellow and current Affiliate at the Harvard Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and a former fellow at the Yale Information Society Project, and she's an affiliate at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies.
Her work has been featured in Vogue, The New Yorker, The Guardian, BBC, NPR, PBS, The Boston Globe, Forbes, CBC, WIRED, Boston Magazine, The Atlantic, Slate, Die Zeit, The Japan Times and more. She is a contributing writer to Robohub and IEEE Spectrum and speaks and holds workshops covering some of the more interesting developments in the world of robotics, and where we might find ourselves in the future.
Darling graduated from law school with honors and holds a doctorate of sciences from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) and an honorary doctorate of sciences from Middlebury College. In 2017, the American Bar Association honored her legal work with the Mark T. Banner award in Intellectual Property. She is the caretaker for several domestic robots, including her Pleos Yochai, Peter, and Mr. Spaghetti. She tweets as @grok_ about eating cheerios for dinner.
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