Robot Ethics 2.0: From Autonomous Cars to Artificial Intelligence

by Patrick Lin (Editor), Keith Abney (Editor), Ryan Jenkins (Editor)

Overview

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), this volume looks 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, the 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, the editors of this volume look beyond the usual suspects for the latest thinking. Many of the views as represented in this cutting-edge volume are provocative--but also what we need to push forward in unfamiliar territory.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780190652975
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	09/01/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	352
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Patrick Lin, Ph.D., is a philosophy professor and Director of the Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group at California Polytechnic State University. He is also affiliated with Stanford Law School, University of Notre Dame, and World Economic Forum; and previously with Stanford's School of Engineering, the U.S. Naval Academy, and Dartmouth College. On the ethics of emerging technologies, he has provided counsel to the U.S. Department of Defense, the 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. He focuses on 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, 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

Table of Contents

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 Boltuc 15. The Internet of Things and Dual Layers of Ethical Concern Adam Henschke 16. Challenges to Engineering Moral Reasoners: Time and Context Michal 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