Ayanna Howard: Human-Robot Interaction & Ethics of Safety-Critical Systems | Lex Fridman Podcast #66

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.

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Ayanna Website: https://howard.ece.gatech.edu/
Ayanna Twitter: https://twitter.com/robotsmarts

OUTLINE:
0:00 - Introduction
2:09 - Favorite robot
5:05 - Autonomous vehicles
8:43 - 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

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