Robot Ethics: The Ethical and Social Implications of Robotics (Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents series)
Keith Abney
Language: English
Pages: 400
ISBN: 026252600X
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Robots today serve in many roles, from entertainer to educator to executioner. As robotics technology advances, ethical concerns become more pressing: Should robots be programmed to follow a code of ethics, if this is even possible? Are there risks in forming emotional bonds with robots? How might society -- and ethics -- change with robotics? This volume is the first book to bring together prominent scholars and experts from both science and the humanities to explore these and other questions in this emerging field.
Starting with an overview of the issues and relevant ethical theories, the topics flow naturally from the possibility of programming robot ethics to the ethical use of military robots in war to legal and policy questions, including liability and privacy concerns. The contributors then turn to human-robot emotional relationships, examining the ethical implications of robots as sexual partners, caregivers, and servants. Finally, they explore the possibility that robots, whether biological-computational hybrids or pure machines, should be given rights or moral consideration.
Ethics is often slow to catch up with technological developments. This authoritative and accessible volume fills a gap in both scholarly literature and policy discussion, offering an impressive collection of expert analyses of the most crucial topics in this increasingly important field.
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Automobiles, but the latest research from academic labs and industry is capturing our imagination like never before. Now, robots are able to deceive, to perform surgeries, to identify and shoot trespassers, to serve as astronauts, to babysit our kids, to shape shift, to eat biomass as their fuel (but not human bodies, the manufacturer insists), and much more. As a case of life imitating art, science fiction had already predicted some of these applications, and robots have been both glorified and.
Conferences have addressed the issue (Veruggio 2009). Current and near-future developments in robotics are taking place in many areas, including hardware, software, and applications. The field is in great ferment, with new systems appearing frequently throughout the world. Among the areas in which the great innovations are taking place are: • Human–robot interaction, in the factory, home, hospital, and many other venues where social interaction by robots is possible • Display and recognition of.
The other virtues are best taught developmentally, by interacting with a developing artificially intelligent mind from its childhood to a mature self-understanding. A machine mind would need to be taught that the dissatisfaction it feels with its purely selfish existence Compassionate AI and Selfless Robots 79 could be turned into a dynamic joyful equanimity by applying itself to the practice of the virtues. We have discussed building on work in affective computing to integrate the capacity for.
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Being blown away because she points her ice cream at a robot to see if it would like some. And what if the enemy tricks the robot into killing innocent civilians by, for example, placing weapons on a school or hospital roof? Who will take the responsibility? A different approach, suggested by Ronald Arkin from the Georgia Institute of Technology, is to equip the robotic soldier with an artificial conscience (Arkin and Moshkina 2007). Arkin had funding from the U.S. Army to work on a method for.