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.

1. THAT DYSTOPIC ROBOT
FUTURE
#FutureworldToday #Robots @RobotLaunch

3. IT’S NOT SCI-FI
But don’t blame the robots!

4. @RobotLaunch

5. @RobotLaunch

6. Artificial
Intelligence
is really Artificial
Stupidity @RobotLaunch

7. That’s just the start.
There are 5 more problems.

8. 1. Robot
SMOG
The sheer number of
new physical systems
in our environment will
cause traffic jams and
all sorts of pollution.
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9. Downtown Los Angeles circa 1920s

10. Andra Keay @RobotLaunch #ALD2017
SWARM ROBOTS

11. SMOG ROBOTS
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12. 2. Robot
SPAM
The noise levels in our
lives will increase
significantly as we see
more social devices.

13. Photo credit: louvre.fr

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

15. SOCIAL ROBOTS

16. SPAM ROBOTS

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!

18. Cognitive biases help us react faster.

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

21. 1: Women don’t build robots

22. Andra Keay @RobotLaunch #ALD2017

24. 2: Robots aren’t built for women

26. Andra Keay @RobotLaunch
3: Robots don’t do diversity

27. Wikipedia: Automatic face detection with Open CV

28. 4: Robots have stereotyped data

29. Via: @jackyalcine 28 Jun 2015

30. Andra Keay @RobotLaunch #ALD2017

31. 4: Female robots are servile

33. AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi

34. 5: Most robots are not female

36. Andra Keay @RobotLaunch

37. Image: Eater Magazine
6: Humanoid robots are slaves

39. Bias
Is an inherent property
of both Algorithms and
Robots @RobotLaunch

41. ROBOT STEREOTYPES

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

44. Simplified drawing of self-driving car sensors

45. SOCIAL ROBOTS

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

51. WHO OWNS
dataall our data?

52. “ If you are not paying
for it, you're not the
customer;
you're the product
being sold.
Television Delivers People 1973

53. SOLUTIONSfrom EPSRC “Principles of Robotics” 2010
https://www.epsrc.ac.uk/research/ourportfolio/themes/engineering/activities/principlesofrobotics/

54. 1. Don’t make KILLER
ROBOTS
No robot should be
designed as a machine
for killing, except in the
interests of national
security.

55. 2. Robots should
OBEY THE LAW
Robots are just tools.
Users and owners have
responsibilities as well
as designers and
manufacturers.

56. 3. Robots should be
GOOD PRODUCTS
Like any other product
robots should comply
with standards for
safety and reliability.

57. 4. Robots should be
TRANSPARENT
Robots are artifacts:
the illusion of life or
emotion should not be
used to exploit users.
Photo: Engineered Arts

58. 5. Robots should be
IDENTIFIABLE
It should be possible to
see or to find out who
is responsible for any
robot.

59. R2D2 and C3PO from Star Wars

60. andra
is a combination of
androgynous and
android
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