There’s something unsettling about a private firm making powerful autonomous machines – but what’s scarier is who’s building them, and why

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/10/hyena-robots-marketing-boston-dynamics

Bootstrapping the narrative of robot apocalypse into discourse about real technology pervades the discourse of hi-tech. Elon Musk talks endlessly of the singularity; even the more measured Sundar Pichai anthropomorphizes AI. Ultimately, this distracts us from thinking about digital infrastructures built out of unaccountable practices. It makes it harder for us to think through complex cases, like when Uber’s self-driving car hit a pedestrian. As recent documents show, this had nothing to do with the robot car and everything to do with shoddy engineering and a bad safety culture.

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Greg Neal, a Duncan, Oklahoma board of education member and a 38 year employee of Halliburton, spoke to the emphasis on safety the Hub would allow.

“What I want to do is talk about safety. When this idea was first proposed I said ‘We’re going to have students and power tools? And, I thought NO’” Neal said. “As time has gone on we are building a safety program, we’re making sure whoever is going to operate this machinery has the right training and I am hoping that we can start a safety culture in High School rather than waiting until we get to the work place.”

These labs will take students through the whole creation process from beginning to end.

Sector; target audience; topic education highschool STEAM