About this episode
Dr. Tom Williams discusses robots, ethics, and various books related to AI and social justice.
Dr. Tom Williams spoke with us about robots, ethics, teaching, and books. Then we talked about mines, umpires, water, and more books. Tom is the author of Degrees of Freedom: On Robotics and Social Justice (free at MIT Press: Degrees of Freedom: On Robotics and Social Justice !). As part of the discussion, we talked about some other books and media: Nonfiction: Sex, Race, and Robots: How to Be Human in the Age of AI by Ayanna Howard (Embedded episodes 367: Data of Our Lives and 207: I Love My Robot Monkey Head ) Embodied AI Safety: Reimagining safety engineering for artificial intelligence in physical systems by Philip Koopman (related Embedded episode 514: Just Turn Off All the Computers ) Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence by Kate Crawford Waki Kamino's research on robot umpires: Beyond Accuracy: Rethinking the Value of AI in Decision-Making Through Baseball's Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) System (or see the summary in the Cornell Chronicle: AI on deck: assessing impact of MLB's new ball-strike system ) Fiction: A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chalmers Platform Decay (The Murderbot Diaries Book 8) by Martha Wells (Embedded episode…
People in this episode
Guest: Dr. Tom Williams
Topics covered
- robots
- ethics
- teaching
- books
- AI
- social justice
Keywords
- robots
- ethics
- AI
- social justice
- books
- teaching
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Degrees of Freedom: On Robotics and Social Justice, Sex, Race, and Robots: How to Be Human in the Age of AI, Embodied AI Safety: Reimagining safety engineering for artificial intelligence in physical systems, Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence, Beyond Accuracy: Rethinking the Value of AI in Decision-Making Through Baseball's Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) System, A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Platform Decay (The Murderbot Diaries Book 8), Death of the Author, The Good Place, Critical Role
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