Robots. Once the stuff of science fiction, now ubiquitous. From the military, to talk shows, to Syrian refugee camps, we are encountering and interacting with robots everywhere. Today on the pod, Jill talks with Dr. Julie Carpenter about how our interactions with robots may already be changing our sense of ourselves and our place in the world.
For transcripts for this episode, go here:
Dr. Julie Carpenter is an External Fellow in the “Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group” Learn more about them here:
https://ethics.calpoly.edu/about.htm
Read more from Dr. Julie Carpenter here:
“Drift”: https://jgcarpenter.com/blog.html
The Naked Android” (Routledge, 2025):
“Culture and Human-Robot Interaction in MIlitarized Spaces: A War Story”:
For more about Derrida and his cat, go here:
“The Animal That Therefore I Am (L’Animal que donc je suis)” pdf : https://ejcj.orfaleacenter.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/2002.-Jacques-Derrida.-The-animal-that-therefore-I-am-more-to-follow.pdf
For more about Dr. Hiroshi Ishiguro and Gemenoid, go here:
For more about Hanson Robotics Sophia, go here:
Sophia on Late Night w Jimmy Fallon (Sophia starts at 9:13): https://youtu.be/G-zyTlZQYpE?si=77bggEZixP0vNNSB&t=553
Will Smith and Sophia on a “date”:
For more about Karim the chatbot and Syrian refugees, go here: