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Published inMar 2024
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Francis X. Govers III
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Francis X. Govers III is an Associate Technical Fellow for Autonomy at Bell Textron, and chairman of the Textron Autonomy Council. He is the designer of over 30 unmanned vehicles and robots for land, sea, air, and space, including RAMSEE, the autonomous security guard robot. Francis helped lead the design of the International Space Station, the F-35 JSF Fighter, the US Army Future Combat Systems, and telemetry systems for NASCAR and IndyCar. He is an engineer, pilot, author, musician, artist, and maker. He received five outstanding achievement awards from NASA and recognition from Scientific American for World Changing Ideas. He has a Master of Science degree from Brandeis University and is a veteran of the US Air Force.
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Chapter 10

  1. Given that we started the chapter with knock-knock jokes and ended up talking about robot phobia and addressing philosophical questions about existence, do you feel that AI is a threat? Why or why not?

    I do not feel that robots or AI are a threat in any way because the necessary and sufficient conditions for robots to be a threat do not exist, which is to say that the robots have to want to take over the world and must have a need to take over. Currently, robots and AI have no such wants or needs.

  2. List any five professions that would be necessary to turn our Albert robot into a product.

    We would need project managers, packaging designers, advertising and marketing experts, salespeople, engineers, technicians, artists, package designers, machinists, electricians, accountants, lawyers, a psychologist, and support staff, among others. You can select any five from among these options.

  3. Why would we need a psychologist in our imaginary company that manufactures robots...
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Francis X. Govers III

Francis X. Govers III is an Associate Technical Fellow for Autonomy at Bell Textron, and chairman of the Textron Autonomy Council. He is the designer of over 30 unmanned vehicles and robots for land, sea, air, and space, including RAMSEE, the autonomous security guard robot. Francis helped lead the design of the International Space Station, the F-35 JSF Fighter, the US Army Future Combat Systems, and telemetry systems for NASCAR and IndyCar. He is an engineer, pilot, author, musician, artist, and maker. He received five outstanding achievement awards from NASA and recognition from Scientific American for World Changing Ideas. He has a Master of Science degree from Brandeis University and is a veteran of the US Air Force.
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