Ayanna Howard: Human-Robot Interaction and Ethics of Safety-Critical Systems

Ayanna Howard is a roboticist and professor at Georgia Tech,
director of Human-Automation Systems lab, with research interests
in human-robot interaction, assistive robots in the home, therapy
gaming apps, and remote robotic exploration of extreme
environments. This conversation is part of the Artificial
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episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the
timestamp to jump to that time. 00:00 - Introduction 02:09 -
Favorite robot 05:05 - Autonomous vehicles 08:43 - Tesla Autopilot
20:03 - Ethical responsibility of safety-critical algorithms 28:11
- Bias in robotics 38:20 - AI in politics and law 40:35 - Solutions
to bias in algorithms 47:44 - HAL 9000 49:57 - Memories from
working at NASA 51:53 - SpotMini and Bionic Woman 54:27 - Future of
robots in space 57:11 - Human-robot interaction 1:02:38 - Trust
1:09:26 - AI in education 1:15:06 - Andrew Yang, automation, and
job loss 1:17:17 - Love, AI, and the movie Her 1:25:01 - Why do so
many robotics companies fail? 1:32:22 - Fear of robots 1:34:17 -
Existential threats of AI 1:35:57 - Matrix 1:37:37 - Hang out for a
day with a robot