Do roboticists consider things such as culture when thinking about how to integrate robots into human lives?
Rodney Brooks: Some of us certainly do, absolutely. My lab has been working on gaze direction. This is the one thing that you and I don’t have right now [over the telephone], but if we were doing some task together, working in the same workspace, we would continuously be looking up at each other’s eyes, to see what the other one was paying attention to. Certainly that level of integration with a robot has been of great interest to me. And if you’re going to have a robot doing really high-level tasks with a person, I think you will want to know where its eyes are pointing, what it’s paying attention to. Dogs do that with us and we do that with dogs, it happens all the time. Somehow cats don’t seem to bother. So are there ethical implications involved when you think about developing sociable robots, in terms of how they might change human behavior? Well, every technology that we build changes us. There’s a great piece on Edge.org by Kevin Kelly, I think it was, talking about how printing
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