The robot population is rising on Earth and other planets. (Mars is inhabited entirely by robots.) As robots slip into more domains of human life - from the operating room to the bedroom - they take on our morally important tasks and decisions, as well as create new risks from psychological to
physical. This makes it all the more urgent to study their ethical, legal, and policy impacts.
To help the robotics industry and broader society, we need to not only press ahead on a wide range of issues, but also identify new ones emerging as quickly as the field is evolving. For
instance, where military robots had received much attention in the past (and are still controversial today), we look toward autonomous cars here as an important case study that cuts across diverse issues, from liability to psychology to trust and more. And because robotics feeds into and is fed by
AI, Internet of Things, and other cognate fields, robot ethics must also reach into those domains, too.
Expanding these discussions also means listening to new voices; robot ethics is no longer the concern of a handful of scholars. Experts from different academic disciplines and
geographical areas are now playing vital roles in shaping ethical, legal, and policy discussions worldwide. So, for a more complete study, we look beyond the usual suspects for the latest thinking. Many of these views are provocative - but also what we need to push forward in unfamiliar territory.
Preface
I. Moral and Legal Responsibility
1. Autonomous Vehicles and Moral Uncertainty, Vikram Bhargava and Tae Wan Kim
2. Ethics Settings for Autonomous Vehicles Jason Millar
3. Autonomy and Responsibility in Hybrid Systems: The Example of Autonomous Cars, Wulf Loh and Janina
Sombetzki
4. Imputing Driverhood: Applying a Reasonable Driver Standard to Accidents Caused by Autonomous Vehicles, Jeffery K. Gurney
5. Liability Law for Present and Future Robotics Technology, Trevor N. White and Seth D. Baum
6. Skilled Perception, Authenticity, and the Case Against
Automation, David Zoller
II. Trust and Human-Robot Interactions
7. Could a Robot Care? It's All in the Movement, Darian Meacham and Matthew Studley
8. Robot Friends for Autistic Children: Monopoly Money or Counterfeit Currency?, Alexis Elder
9. Pediatric Robotics and Ethics: The
Robot Is Ready to See You Now, But Should It Be Trusted?, Jason Borenstein, Ayanna Howard, and Alan R. Wagner
10. Trust and Human-Robot Interactions, Jesse Kirkpatrick, Erin N. Hahn, and Amy J. Haufler
11. White Lies on Silver Tongues: Why Robots Need to Deceive (and How), Alistair M. C.
Isaac and Will Bridewell
12. "Who's Johnny?" Anthropomorphic Framing in Human-Robot Interaction, Integration, and Policy, Kate Darling
III. Applications: From Love to War
13. Lovotics: Human-Robot Love and Sex Relationships, Adrian David Cheok, Kasun Karunanayaka, and Emma Yann
Zhang
14. Church-Turing Lovers, Piotr Botu
15. The Internet of Things and Dual Layers of Ethical Concern, Adam Henschke
16. Challenges to Engineering Moral Reasoners: Time and Context, Micha Klincewicz
17. When Robots Should Do the Wrong Thing, Brian Talbot, Ryan Jenkins, and Duncan
Purves
18. Military Robots and the Likelihood of Armed Combat, Leonard Kahn
IV. The Future of AI and Robotics
19. Testing the Moral Status of Artificial Beings, or "I'm Going to Ask You Some Questions", Michael LaBossiere
20. Artificial Identity, James DiGiovanna
21.
Superintelligence as Superethical, Steve Petersen
22. Artificial Intelligence and the Ethics of Self-Learning Robots, Shannon Vallor and George Bekey
23. Robots and Space Ethics, Keith Abney
24. On the Unabomber and Robots: The Need for a Philosophy of Technology Geared Toward Human
Ends, Jai Galliott
Biosketches
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Patrick Lin, Ph.D., is a philosophy professor and director of the Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group at Cal Poly. He is also affiliated with Stanford Law School, Notre Dame, and World Economic Forum; and previously with Stanford's School of Engineering, U.S. Naval Academy, and Dartmouth. On the
ethics of emerging technologies, he has provided counsel to the U.S. Dept. of Defense, United Nations, Google, Apple, and many other government and industry organizations.
Ryan Jenkins, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of philosophy and a Senior Fellow at the Ethics & Emerging Sciences
Group at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. He focuses in normative ethics (especially consequentialism) and applied ethics, including military ethics and emerging technologies such as driverless cars, robots, and autonomous weapons.
Keith Abney, A.B.D., is senior
lecturer in the Philosophy Department and a senior fellow at the Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, with research that includes work on demarcating science from non-science, moral status and sustainability, astronaut and space bioethics,
patenting life, human enhancement, just war theory and the use of autonomous weapons, robot ethics, and other aspects of the ethical implications of emerging sciences and technologies
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Killing by Remote Control - Edited by Bradley Jay Strawser
Foreword by Jeff McMahan
Artificial Intelligence - Jerry Kaplan
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