If intelligent robots are to participate in our society — as self-driving cars, as caregivers for elderly people or children, and in many other ways that are being envisioned—they must be able to understand and follow social norms, and to earn the trust of others in the society. In this video, Benjamin Kuipers discusses "How Can We Trust a Robot?" (cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/3/225480), a Review Article in the March 2018 issue of Communications of the ACM which applies the philosophical underpinnings of the notion of trust to the context of autonomous machines in human societies.
