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HARDtalk: Professor Rosalind Picard - Founder of Affective Computing, MIT

25/10/2013

Professor Rosalind Picard - Founder of Affective Computing, MIT

BBC News Channel - HARDtalk, Professor Rosalind Picard - Founder of Affective Computing, MIT

In the future, could empathetic robots fight as soldiers or care for the elderly?

Professor Rosalind Picard of MIT has advanced the capability of computers to recognise human emotions. What ethical issues could arise in the future as a result of her work?

Imagine a world where robots can think and feel like humans. HARDtalk speaks to pioneering American scientist Professor Rosalind Picard of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who has advanced the capability of computers to recognise human emotions. In the future, could robots fitted with intelligent computers perform such tasks as caring for the elderly or fighting as soldiers on the battlefield? And, if so, what are the ethical implications?

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