Robot Ethics : The Ethical and Social Implications of Robotics.
Lin, Patrick.
Robot Ethics : The Ethical and Social Implications of Robotics. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (399 pages) - Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents Series . - Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- I Introduction -- 1 Introduction to Robot Ethics -- 1.1 Robots in Society -- 1.2 Ethical and Social Issues -- 1.3 Engaging the Issues Now -- 2 Current Trends in Robotics: Technology and Ethics -- 2.1 What Is a Robot? -- 2.2 Robotics around the World -- 2.3 Industrial/Manufacturing Robots: Robots as Coworkers -- 2.4 Human - Robot Interaction in Healthcare, Surgery, and Rehabilitation -- 2.5 Robots as Co-inhabitants -- Humanoid Robots -- 2.6 Socially Interactive Robots -- 2.7 Military Robots -- 2.8 Conclusion -- 3 Robotics, Ethical Theory, and Metaethics: A Guide for the Perplexed -- 3.1 Four Questions -- 3.2 The Requirements of Moral Personhood: Robots and Their Implications -- 3.3 Conclusion: On Robots and Ethics, and Combining the Two -- II Design and Programming -- 4 Moral Machines: Contradiction in Terms or Abdication of Human Responsibility? -- 4.1 Toward Artificial Moral Agents -- 4.2 Philosophers, Engineers, and the Design of Artificial Moral Agents -- 4.3 Early Research on the Development of AMAs, and Future Challenges -- 4.4 Challenges, Objections, and Criticisms -- 4.5 Conclusion -- 5 Compassionate AI and Selfless Robots: A Buddhist Approach -- 5.1 Programming a Craving Self -- 5.2 The Buddhist Universe of Types of Beings -- 5.3 Would It Be Ethical to Create a Suffering Being? -- 5.4 Programming Compassion -- 5.5 Programming Ethical Wisdom -- 5.6 Programming Self-Transcendence -- 5.7 Conclusion -- 6 The Divine-Command Approach to Robot Ethics -- 6.1 The Context for Divine-Command Roboethics -- 6.2 The Divine-Command Logic LRT* -- 6.3 Concluding Remarks -- III Military -- 7 Killing Made Easy: From Joysticks to Politics -- 7.1 The Ultimate Distance Weapon Systems -- 7.2 In, On, or Out of the Loop -- 7.3 An Ethical Code for Robots? -- 7.4 The Problem of Proportionality -- 7.5 Conclusion. 8 Robotic Warfare: Some Challenges in Moving from Noncivilian to Civilian Theaters -- 8.1 Background and an Example -- 8.2 Mental State Attribution in General -- 8.3 Isotropy -- 8.4 Emotion -- 8.5 A Suggestion for Taming Isotropy -- 8.6 Conclusion -- 9 Responsibility for Military Robots -- 9.1 Killer Robots -- 9.2 Responsibility, Punishment, and Blame -- 9.3 The Logic of Responsibility -- 9.4 Design of Military Robots -- 9.5 Conclusion -- IV Law -- 10 Contemporary Governance Architecture Regarding RoboticsTechnologies: An Assessment -- 10.1 The Intersection between Robotics and Governance -- 11 A Body to Kick, but Still No Soul to Damn: Legal Perspectiveson Robotics -- 11.1 Robots and Product Liability -- 11.2 Vicarious Liability, Agents, and Diminished Responsibility -- 11.3 Rights, Personhood, and Diminished Responsibility -- 11.4 Crime, Punishment, and Personhood in Corporations and Robots -- 11.5 Conclusion -- 12 Robots and Privacy -- 12.1 Robots that Spy -- 12.2 Robots: A Window into the Home -- 12.3 Robots as Social Actors -- 12.4 Conclusion -- V Psychology and Sex -- 13 The Inherent Dangers of Unidirectional Emotional Bonds between Humans and Social Robots -- 13.1 Social Robots Are Different -- 13.2 Autonomy + Mobility = Perceived Agency? -- 13.3 Evidence from HRI Studies -- 13.4 The Personification of Robots -- 13.5 Robot Dogs Are Pets, Too -- 13.6 Even the Roomba Does the Trick -- 13.7 Not Even Experienced Roboticists Are Always Spared -- 13.8 The Dangers Ahead -- 13.9 The False Pretense: Robots Are Agents -- 13.10 The Potential for Abuse -- 13.11 We Need to Act, Now! -- 14 The Ethics of Robot Prostitutes -- 14.1 Sex Dolls for Hire -- 14.2 Paying a (Human) Sex Worker -- 14.3 Some Ethical Aspects of Robot Prostitution -- 14.4 Conclusion -- 15 Do You Want a Robot Lover? The Ethics of Caring Technologies -- 15.1 The Debate. 15.2 What Is a Robot? -- 15.3 What Is a Robot Lover? -- 15.4 Why Would Anyone Want a Robot Lover? -- 15.5 Love -- 15.6 Robot Carers -- 15.7 Conclusion -- VI Medicine and Care -- 16 Robot Caregivers: Ethical Issues across the Human Lifespan -- 16.1 Design Strategies -- 16.2 Care and the Capabilities Approach -- 16.3 Developmental Issues -- 16.4 How Humans Might Change -- 16.5 Human Psychology and Automation -- 16.6 Relying on the Technological Fix to Remedy Social Problems -- 16.7 Conclusion -- 17 The Rights and Wrongs of Robot Care -- 17.1 Safety and the Right to Liberty and Privacy -- 17.2 Human Contact and Socialization -- 17.3 Conclusion -- 18 Designing People to Serve -- 18.1 The Person-o-Matic -- 18.2 The "Typical" Person Case -- 18.3 The "Enhanced" Person Case -- 18.4 The "General Servitude" Case -- 18.5 The " Specific Servitude " Case -- 18.6 Underview -- VII Rights and Ethics -- 19 Can Machines Be People? Reflections on the Turing Triage Test -- 19.1 The Turing Triage Test -- 19.2 The Importance of the Turing Triage Test -- 19.3 Understanding the Turing Triage Test -- 19.4 An Empirical Test for Moral Standing? -- 19.5 The Implications of Machine Personhood -- 19.6 Concepts and Their Application -- 19.7 The Limits of Human Understanding? -- 19.8 Thinking Seriously about Machines . . . -- 20 Robots with Biological Brains -- 20.1 The Technology -- 20.2 Embodiment -- 20.3 Experimentation -- 20.4 Learning -- 20.5 The Methodology -- 20.6 Observations -- 20.7 Questions -- 20.8 Consciousness -- 20.9 An Education -- 20.10 Human Variety -- 20.11 Chinese Room -- 20.12 Functionality -- 20.13 Robot Rights -- 20.14 Future Thoughts -- 21 Moral Machines and the Threat of Ethical Nihilism -- 21.1 How Might a Redescription of the Term " Moral " Come About? -- 21.2 What Is at Stake? -- 21.3 Why Might This Invite Concern? -- VIII Epilogue. 22 Roboethics: The Applied Ethics for a New Science -- 22.1 Robotics, a New Science? -- 22.2 The Robotics Ideology -- 22.3 Robots and Moral Agency -- 22.4 Roboethics, a Work in Progress -- 22.5 The Primacy of Principles over Regulations: The Example of Military Robots -- 22.6 Conclusion -- List of Contributors -- Index.
Prominent experts from science and the humanities explore issues in robot ethics that range from sex to war.
9780262298636
Robotics--Human factors.
Robotics--Moral and ethical aspects.
Robotics--Social aspects.
Robots--Design and construction.
Electronic books.
TJ211.49 .R62 2012
174/.9629892
Robot Ethics : The Ethical and Social Implications of Robotics. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (399 pages) - Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents Series . - Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- I Introduction -- 1 Introduction to Robot Ethics -- 1.1 Robots in Society -- 1.2 Ethical and Social Issues -- 1.3 Engaging the Issues Now -- 2 Current Trends in Robotics: Technology and Ethics -- 2.1 What Is a Robot? -- 2.2 Robotics around the World -- 2.3 Industrial/Manufacturing Robots: Robots as Coworkers -- 2.4 Human - Robot Interaction in Healthcare, Surgery, and Rehabilitation -- 2.5 Robots as Co-inhabitants -- Humanoid Robots -- 2.6 Socially Interactive Robots -- 2.7 Military Robots -- 2.8 Conclusion -- 3 Robotics, Ethical Theory, and Metaethics: A Guide for the Perplexed -- 3.1 Four Questions -- 3.2 The Requirements of Moral Personhood: Robots and Their Implications -- 3.3 Conclusion: On Robots and Ethics, and Combining the Two -- II Design and Programming -- 4 Moral Machines: Contradiction in Terms or Abdication of Human Responsibility? -- 4.1 Toward Artificial Moral Agents -- 4.2 Philosophers, Engineers, and the Design of Artificial Moral Agents -- 4.3 Early Research on the Development of AMAs, and Future Challenges -- 4.4 Challenges, Objections, and Criticisms -- 4.5 Conclusion -- 5 Compassionate AI and Selfless Robots: A Buddhist Approach -- 5.1 Programming a Craving Self -- 5.2 The Buddhist Universe of Types of Beings -- 5.3 Would It Be Ethical to Create a Suffering Being? -- 5.4 Programming Compassion -- 5.5 Programming Ethical Wisdom -- 5.6 Programming Self-Transcendence -- 5.7 Conclusion -- 6 The Divine-Command Approach to Robot Ethics -- 6.1 The Context for Divine-Command Roboethics -- 6.2 The Divine-Command Logic LRT* -- 6.3 Concluding Remarks -- III Military -- 7 Killing Made Easy: From Joysticks to Politics -- 7.1 The Ultimate Distance Weapon Systems -- 7.2 In, On, or Out of the Loop -- 7.3 An Ethical Code for Robots? -- 7.4 The Problem of Proportionality -- 7.5 Conclusion. 8 Robotic Warfare: Some Challenges in Moving from Noncivilian to Civilian Theaters -- 8.1 Background and an Example -- 8.2 Mental State Attribution in General -- 8.3 Isotropy -- 8.4 Emotion -- 8.5 A Suggestion for Taming Isotropy -- 8.6 Conclusion -- 9 Responsibility for Military Robots -- 9.1 Killer Robots -- 9.2 Responsibility, Punishment, and Blame -- 9.3 The Logic of Responsibility -- 9.4 Design of Military Robots -- 9.5 Conclusion -- IV Law -- 10 Contemporary Governance Architecture Regarding RoboticsTechnologies: An Assessment -- 10.1 The Intersection between Robotics and Governance -- 11 A Body to Kick, but Still No Soul to Damn: Legal Perspectiveson Robotics -- 11.1 Robots and Product Liability -- 11.2 Vicarious Liability, Agents, and Diminished Responsibility -- 11.3 Rights, Personhood, and Diminished Responsibility -- 11.4 Crime, Punishment, and Personhood in Corporations and Robots -- 11.5 Conclusion -- 12 Robots and Privacy -- 12.1 Robots that Spy -- 12.2 Robots: A Window into the Home -- 12.3 Robots as Social Actors -- 12.4 Conclusion -- V Psychology and Sex -- 13 The Inherent Dangers of Unidirectional Emotional Bonds between Humans and Social Robots -- 13.1 Social Robots Are Different -- 13.2 Autonomy + Mobility = Perceived Agency? -- 13.3 Evidence from HRI Studies -- 13.4 The Personification of Robots -- 13.5 Robot Dogs Are Pets, Too -- 13.6 Even the Roomba Does the Trick -- 13.7 Not Even Experienced Roboticists Are Always Spared -- 13.8 The Dangers Ahead -- 13.9 The False Pretense: Robots Are Agents -- 13.10 The Potential for Abuse -- 13.11 We Need to Act, Now! -- 14 The Ethics of Robot Prostitutes -- 14.1 Sex Dolls for Hire -- 14.2 Paying a (Human) Sex Worker -- 14.3 Some Ethical Aspects of Robot Prostitution -- 14.4 Conclusion -- 15 Do You Want a Robot Lover? The Ethics of Caring Technologies -- 15.1 The Debate. 15.2 What Is a Robot? -- 15.3 What Is a Robot Lover? -- 15.4 Why Would Anyone Want a Robot Lover? -- 15.5 Love -- 15.6 Robot Carers -- 15.7 Conclusion -- VI Medicine and Care -- 16 Robot Caregivers: Ethical Issues across the Human Lifespan -- 16.1 Design Strategies -- 16.2 Care and the Capabilities Approach -- 16.3 Developmental Issues -- 16.4 How Humans Might Change -- 16.5 Human Psychology and Automation -- 16.6 Relying on the Technological Fix to Remedy Social Problems -- 16.7 Conclusion -- 17 The Rights and Wrongs of Robot Care -- 17.1 Safety and the Right to Liberty and Privacy -- 17.2 Human Contact and Socialization -- 17.3 Conclusion -- 18 Designing People to Serve -- 18.1 The Person-o-Matic -- 18.2 The "Typical" Person Case -- 18.3 The "Enhanced" Person Case -- 18.4 The "General Servitude" Case -- 18.5 The " Specific Servitude " Case -- 18.6 Underview -- VII Rights and Ethics -- 19 Can Machines Be People? Reflections on the Turing Triage Test -- 19.1 The Turing Triage Test -- 19.2 The Importance of the Turing Triage Test -- 19.3 Understanding the Turing Triage Test -- 19.4 An Empirical Test for Moral Standing? -- 19.5 The Implications of Machine Personhood -- 19.6 Concepts and Their Application -- 19.7 The Limits of Human Understanding? -- 19.8 Thinking Seriously about Machines . . . -- 20 Robots with Biological Brains -- 20.1 The Technology -- 20.2 Embodiment -- 20.3 Experimentation -- 20.4 Learning -- 20.5 The Methodology -- 20.6 Observations -- 20.7 Questions -- 20.8 Consciousness -- 20.9 An Education -- 20.10 Human Variety -- 20.11 Chinese Room -- 20.12 Functionality -- 20.13 Robot Rights -- 20.14 Future Thoughts -- 21 Moral Machines and the Threat of Ethical Nihilism -- 21.1 How Might a Redescription of the Term " Moral " Come About? -- 21.2 What Is at Stake? -- 21.3 Why Might This Invite Concern? -- VIII Epilogue. 22 Roboethics: The Applied Ethics for a New Science -- 22.1 Robotics, a New Science? -- 22.2 The Robotics Ideology -- 22.3 Robots and Moral Agency -- 22.4 Roboethics, a Work in Progress -- 22.5 The Primacy of Principles over Regulations: The Example of Military Robots -- 22.6 Conclusion -- List of Contributors -- Index.
Prominent experts from science and the humanities explore issues in robot ethics that range from sex to war.
9780262298636
Robotics--Human factors.
Robotics--Moral and ethical aspects.
Robotics--Social aspects.
Robots--Design and construction.
Electronic books.
TJ211.49 .R62 2012
174/.9629892