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Roboethics: A Branch of Applied Ethics

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Roboethics

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Roboethics involves the ethics of people who design, create and use robots, the ethical system embedded into robots, and the ethics of how people treat robots. Both short-term and long-term ethical issues should be continuously under examination, and the robot use should be compatible with the universal human rights. This chapter presents an elementary introduction to roboethics, including the top-down (deontological and consequentialist) approach, and the bottom-up (developmental/learning) approach. A brief discussion of the robot rights issue is also included.

You realize, there is no free-will in anything

we create with artificial intelligence

Clyd Dsouza

The bottom line is, robots need to be responsive and resilient.

They have to be able to protect themselves and also smoothly

transfer control to human when necessary.

(“Want responsible robots? Start with responsible humans”)

David Woods

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Tzafestas, S.G. (2016). Roboethics: A Branch of Applied Ethics. In: Roboethics. Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering, vol 79. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21714-7_5

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