We talk with Christina Mulligan about the salutary effects of smashing robots that have wronged you. Join us for a chat about revenge and satisfaction in the emerging human-robot social space.
This show’s links:
Christina Mulligan's faculty profile (
https://www.brooklaw.edu/faculty/directory/facultymember/biography?id=christina.mulligan) and writing (
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1557395)
Christina Mulligan, Revenge Against Robots (
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3016048)
About Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Tree_Grows_in_Brooklyn_(novel))
About the Tree that Owns Itself (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_That_Owns_Itself)
The Trial of the Autun Rats (
The-Trial-of-the-Autun-Rats.aspx">http://www.duhaime.org/LawMuseum/LawArticle-1529/1508-
The-Trial-of-the-Autun-Rats.aspx)
Oral Argument 70: No Drones in the Park (
http://oralargument.org/70)
Scott Hershovitz, Tort as a Substitute for Revenge (
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2308590)
Kate Darling, Palash Nandy, and Cynthia Breazeal, Empathic Concern and the Effect of Stories in Human-Robot Interaction (
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2639689); Kate Darling, "Who's Johnny?" Anthropomorphic Framing in Human-Robot Interaction, Integration, and Policy (
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2588669)
Office Space, the printer scene (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9wsjroVlu8) (nsfw)
Hunter Walk, Amazon Echo Is Magical. It’s Also Turning My Kid into an Asshole. (
https://hunterwalk.com/2016/04/06/amazon-echo-is-magical-its-also-turning-my-kid-into-an-asshole/)
Hannah Gold, This Mirror that Forces People to Smile Is Going to Piss Everyone Off (
https://jezebel.com/this-mirror-that-forces-people-to-smile-is-going-to-pis-1819828956)
Special Guest: Christina Mulligan.