Kate Darling: Why we have an emotional connection to robots
Kate Darling: Varför vi har en känslomässig anknytning till robotar
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.
i form av en dinosauriebebis upp och ned.
that I had ordered,
som jag hade beställt,
eftersom jag alltid älskat robotar.
because I've always loved robots.
tekniska egenskaper.
technical features.
was a tilt sensor,
var en lutningssensor,
riktning den var vänd.
so I was showing it off to my friend,
så jag visade upp den för min vän,
See what it does."
Se vad den gör."
the theatrics of this robot
robotens agerande,
to make it stop crying.
för att få den att sluta gråta.
a weird experience for me.
maternal person at the time.
moderlig person vid det tillfället.
a mother, nine months ago,
för nio månader sedan,
when you hold them upside down.
när man håller dem upp och ned.
was also interesting
var intressant,
how this machine worked,
hur den här maskinen fungerade,
compelled to be kind to it.
att jag behövde vara snäll mot den.
under det senaste årtiondet.
was that my treatment of this machine
min behandling av den här maskinen
in my living room,
i mitt vardagsrum,
integrating robots into our lives,
integrerar robotar i våra liv,
might actually have consequences,
faktiskt ha konsekvenser,
is that it's not just me.
att det inte bara är jag.
reported that the United States military
att USA:s militär
that defused land mines.
som desarmerade landminor.
was it was shaped like a stick insect
som en vandrande pinne
around a minefield on its legs,
ett minfält på sina ben,
one of the legs would blow up,
så sprängdes ett ben sönder,
to blow up more mines.
och sprängde fler minor.
of this testing exercise
att det var för inhumant
drag itself along the minefield.
släpa sig fram över minfältet.
a hardened military officer
en tuff militär officer
by science fiction and pop culture
science fiction och populärkultur
hardwired to project intent and life
till att projicera vilja och liv
that seems autonomous to us.
som för oss verkar vara självständig.
of robots like they're alive.
alla slags robotar som levande varelser.
with gun salutes.
med kanonsalut.
even with very simple household robots,
med enkla hushållsrobotar,
around your floor to clean it,
på ditt golv och rengör det,
around on its own
åker omkring på egen hand
when it gets stuck under the couch.
när den fastnar under soffan.
specifically to evoke this response,
för att framkalla den här reaktionen,
ögon och ansikten eller rörelser
subconsciously associate
undermedvetet associerar
called human-robot interaction
kallat människa-robotinteraktion
at Stanford University found out
vid Stanfords universitet upptäckt
a robot's private parts.
en robots intima delar.
respond to the cues given to them
på dessa signaler
where robots are everywhere.
där robotar finns överallt.
from behind factory walls.
genom fabriksväggarna.
and make autonomous decisions and learn
läsa av, ta egna beslut och lära sig saker
analogy we have for this
bästa analogin vi har för detta
we started to domesticate animals,
började vi tämja djur,
and weaponry and companionship.
beväpning och sällskap.
some animals like tools or like products,
vissa djur som verktyg eller produkter,
we've treated with kindness
med vänlighet
as our companions.
i samhället som våra kamrater.
to integrate robots in similar ways.
börja integrera robotar på liknande sätt.
efter att ha jobbat med robottekniker,
from working with roboticists,
robots that can feel anything.
robotar som har känslor.
robots into these shared spaces,
robotar i våra gemensamma rum,
treat them differently than other devices,
behandla dem annorlunda än andra maskiner,
who becomes emotionally attached
som blir känslomässigt fäst
from inefficient to dangerous.
ineffektivt till farligt.
it can actually be useful
det faktiskt vara användbart
connection to robots.
anknytningen till robotar.
viktiga användningsområden,
with autistic children
med autistiska barn
that we haven't seen previously,
inte har sett tidigare,
kids in learning with new results.
uppmuntrar barns lärande med nya resultat.
can help doctors and patients
kan hjälpa läkare och patienter
and with dementia patients.
och med demenspatienter.
being at a party
när jag var på en fest
den här roboten,
robots instead of human care."
robotar istället för mänsklig vård."
it's not what this robot replaces.
roboten ersätter.
we can't use real animals
kan använda riktiga djur,
them more like an animal than a device.
behandla dem mer som djur än en maskin.
connection to robots
känslomässiga bandet till robotar
areas of people's lives.
i mer intima delar av folks liv.
if your child's teddy bear robot
att ditt barns gosedjursrobot
has compelling in-app purchases?
lockande köp inuti appen?
consumer protection and privacy.
konsumentskydd och integritet.
these machines could matter.
dessa maskiner kan spela roll.
initial experience I had
första erfarenheten jag hade
with my friend Hannes Gassert.
med min vän Hannes Gassert.
of these baby dinosaur robots
for about an hour.
i ungefär en timme.
a hammer and a hatchet
and kill the robots.
tortera och döda robotarna.
a little more dramatic
would even so much as strike
ens ville slå till
and at some point, we said,
och vid ett tillfälle sade vi,
om ni förstör ett annat lags robot."
if you destroy another team's robot."
They couldn't do it.
De kunde inte göra det.
a hatchet to one of them."
på en av dem."
and he took the hatchet,
as he brought the hatchet down
när han slog ned yxan
half-serious moment of silence in the room
halvt skämtsamt, halvt allvarligt
för den fallna roboten.
interesting experience.
väldigt intressant upplevelse.
study, obviously,
kontrollerad studie,
later research that I did at MIT
som jag gjorde på MIT
and smash these HEXBUGs
och krossa dessa HEXBUGS
lifelike way, like insects.
väldigt naturtroget sätt, som insekter.
that people are drawn to,
som människor dras till,
was that high-empathy people
personer med hög empati
ett större forskningsområde
that there may be a connection
det kan finnas en koppling
of human-robot interaction
av människa-robotinteraktion
people's empathy?"
ändra människors empati?"
from kicking a robotic dog,
en robothund,
more likely to kick a real dog?
att sparka en riktig hund?
but it's on a completely new level
men på en helt ny nivå
that we respond more intensely to
som vi reagerar mer intensivt på
that are designed to mimic life,
att likna en levande varelse,
for violent behavior
för våldsamt beteende
av våra grymhetsmuskler?
the potential to impact human behavior,
att påverka mänskligt beteende,
to impact social norms,
att påverka sociala normer,
around what we can and can't do
regler om vad vi får och inte får göra
might matter for us.
spela en roll för oss.
we end up changing our rules,
ändrar våra regler eller inte,
come to a new understanding of ourselves.
att få en ny förståelse för oss själva.
de senaste 10 åren
over the past 10 years
a robot on the battlefield,
en robot på slagfältet,
to harm a robotic baby dinosaur,
att skada en dinosauriebebisrobot,
and gears and algorithms.
motorer och kugghjul och algoritmer.
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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