{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6452b6516dd22500113dc7ca/654943597eaf130012238d8f?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"ROBOTS: Taking over or just overtaking?","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/6452b6516dd22500113dc7ca/1706183739541-4ca24ed4d1c7d8da61e5b08622a99a14.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>In this podcast Professor Phil Husbands is in conversation with Andy Platman and Ken Barrett. The chat ranges over a number of topics presented in Phil’s excellent book <em>Robots: What everyone needs to know, </em>including his views on the current media hysterics regarding the immediate dangers of AI, the surprisingly long history of robotics, ethical challenges of AI and autonomous robots now and in the future. He also reads an extract from his book, part of a vignette imagining robotics 600 years in the future.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Participants:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Phil Husbands, Research Professor of Artificial Intelligence (informatics) at the University of Sussex ( <a href=\"https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p1334-phil-husbands/about\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p1334-phil-husbands/about</a>)</p><p>Andy Platman, writer and retired medic.</p><p>Ken Barrett, artist, writer and retired neuropsychiatrist (http://www.kenbarrettstudio.co.uk/)</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The book we were discussing is <em>Robots: What everyone needs to know</em>. OUP, 2021. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Robots-What-Everyone-Needs-Know%C2%AE/dp/0198845391</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Music: Prologue to Act 1 of Brainland, composed by Stephen Brown.</p><p> <a href=\"http://www.brainlandtheopera.co.uk\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">www.brainlandtheopera.co.uk</a></p><p>Portrait sketch by Ken Barrett</p>","author_name":"Ken Barrett"}