Kate Darling: Why we have an emotional connection to robots
Kate Darling: Por qué tenemos una conexión emocional con los robots
Kate Darling investigates the relationship between humans and robots -- now, and in the future. Full bio
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un robot dinosaurio bebé boca abajo.
a baby dinosaur robot upside down.
that I had ordered,
que había encargado,
because I've always loved robots.
porque siempre me han gustado los robots.
realmente geniales.
technical features.
was a tilt sensor,
en qué dirección estaba orientado.
so I was showing it off to my friend,
por eso se lo estaba mostrando a mi amigo,
See what it does."
Mira lo que hace".
the theatrics of this robot
la teatralidad de este robot.
to make it stop crying.
para que dejara de llorar.
a weird experience for me.
maternal person at the time.
más maternal en ese momento.
a mother, nine months ago,
nueve meses, soy madre,
when you hold them upside down.
se retuercen al sostenerlos boca abajo.
también fue interesante.
was also interesting
how this machine worked,
cómo funcionaba esta máquina,
compelled to be kind to it.
a ser amable con ella.
was that my treatment of this machine
que mi trato a esta máquina
in my living room,
en mi sala de estar,
integrating robots into our lives,
cada vez más robots en nuestras vidas,
might actually have consequences,
tener consecuencias,
is that it's not just me.
es que no soy solo yo.
reported that the United States military
que los militares de EE. UU.
that defused land mines.
que desactivaba minas terrestres.
was it was shaped like a stick insect
con la forma de un insecto palo,
alrededor de un campo minado
around a minefield on its legs,
one of the legs would blow up,
una de las piernas explotaba,
to blow up more mines.
para hacer explotar más minas.
of this testing exercise
de este ejercicio de prueba
drag itself along the minefield.
arrastrarse por el campo minado.
a hardened military officer
un oficial militar endurecido
por la ciencia ficción y la cultura pop
by science fiction and pop culture
personificar estas cosas,
hardwired to project intent and life
biológicamente programados
that seems autonomous to us.
espacio físico que nos parezca autónomo.
de robots como si estuvieran vivos.
of robots like they're alive.
de bombas obtienen nombres.
with gun salutes.
con funerales con salvas.
incluso con robots domésticos muy simples,
even with very simple household robots,
around your floor to clean it,
por el piso para limpiarlo,
se está moviendo de forma autónoma
around on its own
when it gets stuck under the couch.
cuando se atasca debajo del sofá.
specifically to evoke this response,
para evocar esta respuesta,
subconsciously associate
y subconscientemente lo asocie
denominado interacción humano-robot
called human-robot interaction
lo bien que funciona esto.
at Stanford University found out
la Universidad de Stanford descubrieron
a robot's private parts.
las partes íntimas de un robot.
a partir de muchos otros estudios,
respond to the cues given to them
a las señales que reciben
where robots are everywhere.
donde los robots estarán en todas partes.
desde detrás de las paredes de la fábrica.
from behind factory walls.
los lugares de trabajo, a los hogares.
and make autonomous decisions and learn
y tomar decisiones autónomas y aprender,
analogy we have for this
que tenemos para esto
we started to domesticate animals,
comenzamos a domesticar animales,
and weaponry and companionship.
la guerra y la compañía.
some animals like tools or like products,
hemos tratado a algunos animales
we've treated with kindness
los hemos tratado con amabilidad.
as our companions.
como nuestros compañeros.
to integrate robots in similar ways.
a integrar robots de manera similar.
from working with roboticists,
por mi trabajo en robótica.
robots that can feel anything.
desarrollar robots que puedan sentir.
robots into these shared spaces,
robots en estos espacios compartidos,
treat them differently than other devices,
de manera diferente a otros dispositivos,
who becomes emotionally attached
que se une emocionalmente
from inefficient to dangerous.
hasta peligroso.
en realidad, puede ser útil
it can actually be useful
connection to robots.
emocional con los robots.
algunos buenos casos de uso,
with autistic children
que trabajan con niños autistas.
that we haven't seen previously,
que no se han visto antes o
kids in learning with new results.
en el aprendizaje con nuevos resultados.
can help doctors and patients
los robots pueden ayudar
en entornos sanitarios.
y con pacientes con demencia
and with dementia patients.
being at a party
robots instead of human care."
robots en vez de cuidado humano".
it's not what this robot replaces.
no es lo que reemplaza este robot.
es la terapia animal.
we can't use real animals
no podemos usar animales reales,
porque la gente
them more like an animal than a device.
a un animal que a un dispositivo.
emocional con los robots
connection to robots
a anticipar desafíos, porque
areas of people's lives.
más íntimas de la vida de las personas.
if your child's teddy bear robot
si el robot de oso de peluche de su hijo
has compelling in-app purchases?
compras atractivas dentro de la app?
más capitalismo es igual a
consumer protection and privacy.
del consumidor y la privacidad.
these machines could matter.
con estas máquinas pueda ser relevante.
initial experience I had
esa primera experiencia inicial
with my friend Hannes Gassert.
con mi amigo Hannes Gassert.
of these baby dinosaur robots
de estos robots bebé dinosaurio
a cinco equipos de personas.
for about an hour.
durante aproximadamente una hora.
a hammer and a hatchet
and kill the robots.
y mataran a los robots.
a little more dramatic
would even so much as strike
los participantes lo hizo eso
and at some point, we said,
y en un momento dijimos,
if you destroy another team's robot."
si destruyen el robot de otro equipo".
No querían hacerlo.
They couldn't do it.
a hatchet to one of them."
con un hacha uno de ellos".
and he took the hatchet,
y tomó el hacha,
cuando dio un hachazo
as he brought the hatchet down
jocoso, medio serio en la habitación
half-serious moment of silence in the room
interesting experience.
study, obviously,
later research that I did at MIT
posterior que hice en el MIT
and smash these HEXBUGs
laboratorio y aplastaron a estos HEXBUGs
lifelike way, like insects.
como los insectos.
that people are drawn to,
que atrae a la gente,
was that high-empathy people
las personas de alta empatía
un gran cuerpo de investigación.
that there may be a connection
que puede haber una conexión
de empatía de las personas
of human-robot interaction
de la interacción humano-robot
la empatía de las personas?".
people's empathy?"
from kicking a robotic dog,
a un perro robótico,
sino porque
more likely to kick a real dog?
a patear a un perro de verdad?
sobre los videojuegos violentos,
but it's on a completely new level
that we respond more intensely to
a la que respondemos más intensamente
violentamente hacia los robots,
that are designed to mimic life,
para imitar la vida,
for violent behavior
para el comportamiento violento
nuestros músculos para la crueldad?
the potential to impact human behavior,
de impactar el comportamiento humano,
to impact social norms,
normas sociales,
around what we can and can't do
sobre lo que podemos
de crueldad animal.
si los robots no pueden sentir,
puede ser importante para nosotros.
might matter for us.
we end up changing our rules,
cambiando nuestras reglas,
come to a new understanding of ourselves.
una nueva comprensión de nosotros mismos.
en los últimos 10 años,
over the past 10 years
relacionamos con los demás.
es amable con un Roomba,
a robot on the battlefield,
a un robot en el campo de batalla,
to harm a robotic baby dinosaur,
a dañar a un bebé dinosaurio robótico,
and gears and algorithms.
engranajes y algoritmos,
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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