Robot as Threat

When a robot goes bad, who is responsible? It’s not always clear
if the user or the manufacturer is liable when a robot leaves the
lot. Human behavior can be complex—and often contradictory.
Asking machines to interpret that behavior is quite the task.
Will it one day be possible for a robot to have its own sense of
right and wrong? And barring robots acting of their own accord,
whose job is it to make sure their actions can’t be
hijacked? 


AJung Moon explains the ethical ramifications of robot AI. Ryan
Gariepy talks about the levels of responsibility in robotic
manufacturing. Stefanie Tellex highlights security
vulnerabilities (and scares us, just a little). Brian Gerkey of
Open Robotics discusses reaching the high bar of safety needed to
deploy robots. And Brian Christian explores the
multi-disciplinary ways humans can impart behavior norms to
robots.


If you want to read up on some of our research on robots as
threats, you can check our all our bonus material over at
redhat.com/commandlineheroes. Follow along with the episode
transcript.