Ben Brown Show Notes

This week I speak with Ben Brown of Howdy.AI, a Slack chatbot digital assistant. 

• XOXCO homepage
• Slack homepage
• Oxford future of employment study
• Agile software development method

Tom Guarriello, Ph.D.

John Havens Autonomous Vehicle Podcast Show Notes: 

• John C. Havens’s homepage
• MIT Technology Review, Why Self-Driving Cars Must Be Programmed to Kill
• Heartificial Intelligence
• Volvo statement about autonomous vehicle responsibility
• Tesla statement about Autopilot softwarenot making Tesla a self-driving car
• Should Self-Driving Cars Have to Pass Driver’s Tests?
• Affective computing
• John Deere lawyers say owners don’t own their tractors
• Kentucky drone shooting

Jenny Blake is an author, educator, consultant and former Googler who has written and spoken extensively about work and careers in the new economic world. She is deeply interested in how robots and AI will impact the work world. 

Jenny Blake Podcast Show Notes

• Oxford University future of employment affected by robots 
• Almost 90% of global workers are disengaged from their work
• Google hiring people without college degrees

Jenny Blake on The Internet:

• Jenny Blake’s main page

• Jenny's Books

  • Life After College
  • The Pivot Method
    
    
• Twitter: @jennyblake

Articles referenced:

• The Atlantic: A World Without Work
• The Guardian: Are Machines Making Humans Obsolete? (on the dawning of the "relationship age")
• Psychology Today: Job, Career or Calling: Key to Happiness and Meaning at Work?

Steve Omohundro RoboPsych Podcast Show Notes

This episode include spoilers for AMC's Humans.

• AMC Humans website, including free episodes
• Steve Omohundro website
• Mickey Mouse in “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice”
• Jibo
• Pepper
• Eliza computerized psychotherapist
• Julie Carpenter, Ph.D. interview on RoboPsych Podcast
• School of Visual Arts, Master’s in Branding program
• The Hidden Persuaders, Vance Packard, 1957
• Kevin Kelly podcast on Tim Ferriss Show
• Population dynamics in 21st Century
• Future shock
• Psychodynamics of approach-avoidance conflicts
• South Korean autonomous turret weapon
• Faraday cage
• Isaac Asimov’s three laws of robotics

1. Complete survey and results.
2. Pictures: Robot 1 and Robot 2

Kate Darling Show Notes

1. “Who’s Johnny?” research paper, PDF on robots, framing and empathy
2. Heider & Simmel 1944, a study of interpersonal perception and attribution of human characteristics to objects
3. Peter Singer, The Most Good You Can Do, on living ethically
4. Personal Data New York City Meetup, June 4 - In-Home Robots and Personal Data
5. Lily Camera Drone
6. Boston Dynamics “Spot” testing video and CNN story entitled, Is it cruel to kick a robot dog?
7. The Hexbug Nano robot used in Kate Darling’s “Who’s Johnny?” research
8. Aldebaran’s Pepper robot
9. Jibo, a social robot
10. Why Google’s Robot Personality Patent Is Not Good for Robotics, by Kate Darling
11. Project VRM (Vendor Relationship Management) - at Harvard’s Berkman Center
12. We Robot Conference - especially papers by Kate Darling, Peter Asaro and Jason Millar
13. Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right From Wrong - by Wendell Wallach
14. Kate Darling’s Twitter Page

An interview with author and speaker John C. Havens.

Show notes:

• Happy - The Movie
• Palantir - Data analysis systems
• Project VRM - Doc Searls's Vendor Relationship Management project
• acxiom - Data services
• The Cluetrain Manifesto by Weinberger, Locke, Searls and Levine
• The Intention Economy - by Doc Searls
• John C. Havens’ Mashable articles
• Our Final Invention - by James Barratt
• Steve Omohundro's Wikipedia page
• Sentient Technologies
• Sustainable Brands 
• Foxconn workers being replaced by robots
• The Rise of the Robots by Martin Ford 
• Universal Basic Income Wikipedia page
• Jibo, a social robot for the home
• Pepper, a social robot for the home 
• Affective, measuring human emotion
• Future of Life Institute
• Jason Millar and the AI "tunnel problem"
• Jaron Lanier - The Myth of AI
• Robots Are People, Too by John Frank Weaver
• Stuart J. Russell - AI scholar 
• John C. Havens - website

Robots, artificial intelligence, human-robot interaction, psychology

1. Julie Carpenter's Home Page
2. The TALON Explosive Ordnance Disposal device

Show Notes

This week, Tom interviews Kathleen Richardson, Ph.D., author of An Anthropology of AI and Robotics: Annihilation Anxiety and Machines.

• Dr. Richardson's De Montfort University homepage
• Jibo robot 
• Jimmy robot 
• Pepper robot 
• Baxter robot 
• Sawyer robot 
• Tesla self-driving software update
• Trolley problem ethical dilemma
• Kate Darling, Ph.D., robot ethicist

Show Notes:

1. Here's Carla Diana's website
2. Carla's bio
3. Simon the robot
4. Simon's cousin, Curi the robot
5. Baxter, trainable robot
6. Sawyer, Baxter's younger brother
7. Kismet, Wikipedia page
8. Dopey, from Snow White
9. Leo The Maker Prince, at Amazon.com
10. Leo objects on Thingiverse 
11. Shapeways, 3D printing website
12. Cooper Hewitt Museum Beautiful Users exhibition
13. Neato Botvac website
14. Talking, Walking Objects article by Carla in NYTimes
15. Smart Design website
16. University of Pennsylvania Course - Design of Contemporary Products: Smart Objects
17. Radiolab episode - Talking to Machines

Show Notes:

• Tery Spataro's writings on Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
• Tery's book, The Other Side of the Box, on Amazon
• Ben Goertzel YouTube video on achieving "a positive singularity" in nine years
• Nick Bostrom, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, on Amazon

Episode 2 Show Notes: 

• Institute for Ethics & Emerging Technologies article on human emotions and robots
• Darwin: Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals
• Eckman’s Six Emotions
• Masahiro Mori’s “uncanny valley” 
• Sigmund Freud: The Uncanny (1919)
• Elon Musk CNBC Interview
• Vicarious - Elon Musk investment
• Monty Python Spanish Inquisition skit!
• Jaron Lanier - Edge.org The Myth of AI
• Heider & Simmel (1944) Anthropomorphism study video
• Nick Bostrom: 2002 Existential Risk article
• Nick Bostrom: Superintelligence
• Bill Gates: Reddit AMA

Every era makes new psychological demands on the people living in them. In our time, robots are about to present us with a new set of challenges. We've imagined living with man-made creatures since Plato's time but we've never been as close to having those fantasies come to life as we are today.

A major question facing us all: how will I use these new tools effectively and achieve objectives I never could have achieved without them?

Answer: each of us must learn and practice the cognitive, emotional and behavioral RoboPsych competencies that enable successful utilization of these amazing new technologies. 

The RoboPsych Podcast is a new show dedicated to exploring the psychology of human-robot interaction. Subscribe on iTunes or your favorite podcatcher and stop by RoboPsych.com for more information.