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Robots want bitcoin

“There is no isolation once you hack the robot you can disable all kind of safety.”

According to Apa, these vulnerabilities are especially dangerous because human workers have a certain degree of trust working side by side with these robots.

“These type of robots work in the factory alongside people because they are collaborative robots,” he said. “In this case the people trust and they don’t even use helmets.”

Apa said that some of these collaborative robots have enough strength to fracture a human skull.

Source: Hacked Retail Robots Can Assault Customers… | Motherboard

Sympathy for Janet on ‘The Good Place’

Sympathy for Janet on ‘The Good Place’

Rather, the present urgency, according to pop culture, is around this: Will advanced AI deserve human rights? Should we cut back on cursing out Siri as she gets savvier, or outlaw kicking the next generation’s Furby?

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It’s especially easy to empathize with Black Mirror’s digital ghosts because they are derived from real people. Yet in the show’s universe, too few people do empathize. Which raises the dark question of how much worse people would treat entities that don’t so blatantly resemble their friends but still do have a rich, lively consciousness.

Painting with a Roomba and International Klein Blue

Addie Wagenknecht, Self portrait–loneliness is what we can’t do for each other. IKB dry pigment and resin on canvas. 80 x 90 in / 203.2 x 228.6 cm. 2017. Courtesy of bitforms gallery.

[…] as we become more dependent on digital devices to mediate our actions and interactions, we begin to experience them as “creatures” instead of machines and form bonds with them.

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