DANIELA RUS, co-author of The Mind’s Mirror: Risk and Reward in the Age of AI (W. W. Norton & Company) and The Heart and the Chip: Our Bright Future with Robots, is a pioneering roboticist and a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, where she is the director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. A global leader in robotics and AI, she is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a MacArthur Fellow.