This document discusses 5 potential problems with increased robot use: 1) Robot smog from traffic and pollution, 2) Robot spam from increased noise and data collection, 3) Robot stereotypes from biases in data and design, 4) Robot surveillance from sensors collecting vast amounts of data, and 5) Robot subversion from manipulating behavior. It also presents 5 principles for responsible robotics: 1) Don't make killer robots, 2) Robots should obey the law, 3) Robots should be good products, 4) Robots should be transparent, and 5) Robots should be identifiable.
14. Via CB Insights
“670% increase in clicks
using psychographic
profiling in 2009 study”
“four to five thousand
data points on every
American citizen”
Cambridge Analytica
17. 3. Robot
STEREOTYPES
Robots and the AI inside
them all operate on
stereotyped data,
setting social change
back to the most popular
views, not the most
progressive ones.
So many men,
so few bullets!
20. Robots might be biased but
humans are worse!
▪ We think of robots like people not devices
▪ But we don’t think robots are biased
▪ We think robots can be updated easily
▪ Male designers build robots for men
▪ Most robots are male/neutral
▪ Female robots are sexy or servile
▪ Women don’t make robots
42. 4. Robot
SURVEILLANCE
We have eyes in the sky
now as well as on the
ground. Every robot
needs sensors to
operate, making them
constant roving data
collectors.
Photo: Aerotain
43. Postcard of Panopticon at Stateville Correction Centre, Illinois. Courtesy of Alex Wellerstein
46. IF 1 CAR = 4,000 GB DATA/DAY
OFFICES/SHOPS
= 100 Million HOUSES = 1 Billion
CARS = 1 Billion PEOPLE = 7 Billion
FACTORIES =
10 Million
47. 40 Billion Terabytes Data/Day
10 Trillion Terabytes Data/Year
OFFICES/SHOPS
= 100 Million HOUSES = 1 Billion
CARS = 1 Billion PEOPLE = 7 Billion
FACTORIES =
10 Million
48. 44 trillion GbAccumulated data by 2020
50 billion devicesWith multiple devices by 2020
4 billion peopleOnline >50% world’s population
49. 5. Robot
SUBVERSION
Robots are not neutral.
Their actions can be
deceptive and
manipulative. Basically,
they are good at pushing
our buttons or pulling our
strings.
50. StereotypesCreating a society resistant to social justice
SubversionManipulating our behavior without our knowledge
SurveillanceConstantly collecting data from everything