Robots Have a Diversity Problem – The New New – Medium
[…] not only are the majority of home robots designed with white plastic, but we also actually have a bias against the ones that are coated in black plastic.
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Amazon warehouse workers in Europe stage ‘we are not robots’ protests
The conditions our members at Amazon are working under are frankly inhuman. They are breaking bones, being knocked unconscious and being taken away in ambulances. We’re standing up and saying enough is enough, these are people making Amazon its money. People with kids, homes, bills to pay — they’re not robots.
Hal was built to suffer. He is a medical training robot […]. No longer must nurses train on lifeless mannequins. Hal can shed tears, bleed, and urinate.
In three incidents, humans intentionally attacked a self-driving car, such as by hitting it, or climbing on top of it.
Waymo […] routinely encounters pedestrians who deliberately try to “prank” its cars, continually stepping in front of them, moving away and then stepping back in front of them, to impede their progress.
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
This does not irritate or harm the robot
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.
