Presentation: Robot Social Engineering: Social Engineering Using Physical Robots

Physical robots, such as Roombas, Baxter, Pepper, and many others, can make use of social abilities such as authority, persuasion, empathy, and so on. These social abilities can be used by robots to social engineer humans into doing or saying things that are not in their best interest. This talk will cover some of the capabilities of physical robots, related human-robot interaction research, and the interfaces that can be used by a robot to social engineer humans. Come discuss the security, privacy, and ethical implications of social robots, the interfaces used to control them, and the techniques that can be used to prevent robot social engineering attacks.