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Monday, June 09, 2025

AI and why we should all be worried - AI's dirty secrets

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I gave a new talk on AI for the Swindon Science Cafe on 3rd June. Here below are the slides. This talk is an updated version of a short ta...

How to make an ethical robot, and why we probably shouldn't

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Slide 2 Robot ethics and machine ethics are two sides of the same coin.  Robot ethics are ethics for humans. Machine ethics are ethics for...
Sunday, February 23, 2025

Paris conference on Safe and Ethical AI

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Earlier this month I was privileged to part of the inaugural conference of the International Association for Safe and Ethical AI . The two ...
Wednesday, August 07, 2024

New paper: A Simulated real-world upper-body Exoskeleton Accident and Investigation

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Back in February I posted a very brief account of our third RoboTIPS simulated accident and investigation, centred on an upper-body exoskel...
Wednesday, February 28, 2024

A simulated upper body exoskeleton accident and investigation

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On Wednesday 21 February we ran the third of our RoboTIPS simulated accident scenarios in the Bristol Robotics Lab. This scenario focussed ...
Monday, May 16, 2022

A Draft Open Standard for an Ethical Black Box

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About 5 years ago we proposed that all robots should be fitted with the robot equivalent of an aircraft Flight Data Recorder to continuously...
Tuesday, April 12, 2022

Our first mock social robot accident and investigation

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Robot accidents are inevitable. These days the likelihood of serious accidents involving industrial robots is pretty low (but not zero), bec...
Thursday, May 27, 2021

Ethics is the new Quality

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This morning I took part in the first panel at the BSI conference The Digital World: Artificial Intelligence .  The subject of the panel...
Saturday, May 15, 2021

The Grim Reality of Jobs in Robotics and AI

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The reality is that AI is in fact generating a large number of jobs already. That is the good news. The bad news is that they are mostly - t...
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