Chercheuse au Media Lab du MIT, KATE DARLING s’intéresse à l’éthique de la robotique et entreprend des études expérimentales sur les interactions hommes-robots.

Elle explore les connexions émotionnelles entre les humains et inventions humanoïdes et cherche à influencer les réglementations et design des technologies.
Ses contributions écrites et ses recherches anticipent les difficultés que les législateurs, ingénieurs mais aussi le public en général devront affronter du fait de l’évolution des relations hommes-robots au cours des décennies à venir. En effet, les robots occupent un rôle de plus en plus important dans notre vie et notre travail – dépassant maintenant les murs des ateliers pour se retrouver dans les transports, l’éducation, la médecine, les soins à la personne, nos bureaux et nos maisons. Cependant, l’éthique et le droit n’ont pas pu suivre le rythme.

Grâce à sa formation en propriété intellectuelle, droit et économie, la passion de KATE DARLING pour la technologie et les robots la conduit dans des domaines interdisciplinaires. Après avoir co-enseigné le cours d’éthique robotique à Harvard Law School aux côtés du renommé professeur Lawrence Lessig, son travail se situe de plus en plus à l’intersection du droit et de la robotique, avec un intérêt pour les questions juridiques et sociales.

Kate Darling est fellow au Centre Berkman pour l’Internet et la société de Harvard et pour le Projet Société de l’Information de Yale. Elle est aussi affiliée à l’Institut pour l’éthique et les technologies émergentes.

Son travail a été mentionné par la BBC, The Guardian, The Boston Globe, CBC, WIRED entre autres. Elle est l’auteur de multiples publications académiques et écrit pour Robohub et IEEE Spectrum.

KATE DARLING est une présentatrice fascinante et  inspirante. Elle intervient et anime des ateliers sur les derniers développements dans le monde de la robotique et où cela peut nous conduire dans le futur.


 Mots Clés  :  Futur & Technologie, Société & Education, Big Data, Intelligence Artificielle, Machine Learning Technologie, Ethique robotique et futur des interactions Homme-Robot,     Société et droit des robots : étendre la protection juridique aux robots sociaux,  Technologies émergentes
       
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Leading Expert in Social Robotics and MIT Media Lab Research Specialist

A leading expert in robot ethics, Dr. Kate Darling is a research specialist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, where she investigates social robotics and conducts experimental studies on human-robot interaction.

KATE DARLING explores the emotional connection between people and life-like machines, seeking to influence technology design and policy direction. Dr. Darling’s writing and research anticipate difficult questions that lawmakers, engineers, and the wider public will need to address as human-robot relationships evolve in the coming decades.

Forever interested in how technology intersects with society, she has a background in law and economics as well as intellectual property. Dr. Darling has researched economic incentives in copyright and patent systems and has taken a role as intellectual property expert at multiple academic and private institutions. Named one of the “Women in Robotics You Need to Know About” by Robohub, she currently serves as intellectual property policy advisor to the director of the MIT Media Lab. She is also the author of the book The New Breed: What Our History with Animals Reveals About Our Future with Robots, exploring how building diverse relationships with robots could be the key to making our future with robotic technology work.

Her passion for technology and robots has led her to interdisciplinary fields. After co-teaching a robot ethics course at Harvard Law School with Professor Lawrence Lessig, she increasingly works at the intersection of law and robotics, with a focus on legal and social issues. Dr. Darling is a former Fellow at the Harvard Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and the Yale Information Society Project, and is also an affiliate at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies.

Dr. KATE DARLING’s work has been featured in Vogue, The New Yorker, The Guardian, BBC, NPR, PBS, The Boston Globe, Forbes, CBC, WIRED magazine, Boston Magazine, The Atlantic, Slate, Die Zeit, The Japan Times, and many more major publications and outlets. She is a contributing writer to Robohub and IEEE Spectrum and speaks and holds workshops covering some of the more interesting developments in the world of robotics, and where we might find ourselves in the future.

Dr. Darling graduated from law school with honors and holds a doctorate of sciences from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) and an honorary doctorate of sciences from Middlebury College. In 2017, the American Bar Association honored her legal work with the Mark T. Banner award in Intellectual Property. She was also recognized in 2017 as a “Radar Thinker” by Thinkers50. She is the caretaker for several domestic robots, including her Pleos Yochai, Peter, and Mr. Spaghetti.



Speech Topics :

    Robot Ethics and the Future of Human-Robot Interaction
    Society and Robot Law: Extending Legal Protection to Social Robots
    Emerging Technology
    Future & Technology Society & Education   
    Artificial Intelligence Big Data Machine Learning Technology

The Future of Human-Robot Interaction.
The robots are coming and they’re getting smarter, evolving from single-task devices (think Roomba) into machines that can make their own decisions and autonomously navigate public spaces. From transportation systems, hospitals and the military, to the robotization of our workplaces and households, robots will be everywhere and will increasingly interact with people.

Whether you find it exhilarating or terrifying (or both), progress in robotics and related fields like AI raises new ethical quandaries and challenges legal codes created for a world in which a sharp line separates man from machine.

Drawing from her recent work exploring humans’ emotional responses to robots, Dr. Kate Darling answers questions like:

•    What happens when robots move from behind factory walls into shared spaces and begin interacting with humans ?
•    What opportunities and challenges should we anticipate in the future of human-robot interaction ?
•    Where does the true potential of AI and robotics lie, and will robots supplement human ability, or replace it ?
•    Why do people treat robots like living things, and why does that matter ?
•    What can and can’t robots and AI do ?
•    What societal challenges will we face in a future with robots (ethical, legal, social) ?

Dr. KATE DARLING examines why people fear some robots and empathize with others, while also prompting – and answering – questions about what society’s relationship with these robots could look like in the future. What follows is in part an examination of the technology itself, but ultimately, offers a window into how it’s poised to change the way we relate to each other and our own humanity – and why it matters.