13. Robotics and autonomy with Alan Winfield

I talk to Alan about how humans should innovate ethically, different standards and the role of standards for designing and building robots, how autonomous systems should be transparent, and how studying robotics enables us to peer into our own behaviours and intelligence.

Date: 13th of July 2017
Podcast authors: Ben Byford in conversation with Alan Winfield
Audio duration: 42:42 | Website plays & downloads: 4315 Click to download
Tags: Ethicists, Academic, Standards, Robots, Transparency, Book, Author, IEEE, EPSC | Playlists: Philosophy, Robots, Machine Ethics, Standards

UWE Professor of Robot Ethics - Engineer, roboethicist and pro-feminist. Interested in robots as working models of life, evolution, intelligence and culture.

Links:

Alan's blog
EPSC principles of robotics
Robotics: A Very Short Introduction

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Episode host: Ben Byford

Ben Byford is a AI ethics consultant, code, design and data science teacher, freelance games designer with years of design and coding experience building websites, apps, and games.

In 2015 he began talking on AI ethics and started the Machine Ethics podcast. Since, Ben has talked with academics, developers, doctors, novelists and designers on AI, automation and society.

Through Ethical by Design Ben and the team help organisations make better AI decisions leveraging their experience in design, technology, business, data, sociology and philosophy.

@BenByford

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