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It explored the idea that rather than focusing on robots as artificial humans, we should consider them as partners, similar to the way humans have interacted with animals for centuries, particularly in terms of their unique skill sets.
Your latest book, coming out in April 2021, The New Breed, What Our History with Animals Reveals About Our Future with Robots.
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Episode: Cosmic Queries – Robot Ethics with Dr. Kate Darlin...
It explored the idea that rather than focusing on robots as artificial humans, we should consider them as partners, similar to the way humans have interacted with animals for centuries, particularly in terms of their unique skill sets.
Your latest book, coming out in April 2021, The New Breed, What Our History with Animals Reveals About Our Future with Robots.
And one of the things that I try to do with the book is move away from this constant comparison we have of robots to humans and artificial intelligence to human intelligence and these narratives we have about them taking over and replacing us.
And I tried to push a different analogy which is animals and I look at the ways that we've harnessed animals for work, for weaponry, for companionship, for millennia and how we've partnered with animals not because they do what we do but because their skill sets are so different from ours.
So you say that we haven't used animal intelligence. I don't think that's true. That's only true if you view intelligence as human intelligence.
But I'm just trying to open up our minds to more opportunities and more possibilities than just recreating what we already have.
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It was mentioned as a book that Kate Darling was writing, exploring how our history with animals might inform the future of our relationships with robots.
So, you have a book that may be coming out in 2021. Yeah, I should be writing. I have a title here. Is this the right one? The New Breed, What Our History With Animals Reveals About Our Future With Machines.