Robotic Ethics

Shahid Iqbal Tarar

Robotics and Ethics

• Is new science or branch or a field of application of Engineering?

• Actually Discipline born from Computer Science, AI, Mechanics, Physics/Maths, Electronics, Automation and control and cybernetics

• Specificity of Robotics– Humanity at threshold of replicating an intellegent and autonomous

entity– Complex concepts like (learning, conciousness, decision making ,

freedom, emtions etc. ) may not have same semantic meaning in humans, animals and machines

Robotics and Ethics

• It draws on many other disciplnes like logic, neuroscience, biology, philosophy, natural history and arts.

• Robotics defecto unifies two cultures, science and humanities

• The primary assumption for Robotic ethics is the unity of these cultures

Robotics

• Introduction• Three Laws of Robotics introduced by Isaac

Asimov in 1942– A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a

human being to come to harm.

– A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

– A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

• Later, Asimov added the Zeroth Law: – "A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to

harm"; the rest of the laws are modified sequentially to acknowledge this.

Robotics (layman opinion)

• Robots are just machines

• Robots have ethical dimensions

• Robots as moral agents

• Robots, evolution of a new specie

Robotic ethics taxonomy

• Humanoid • Artificial minds• Artificial body

– Benefits– Problems– Recommendations

• Safety • Security• Tracebility• Indentifiability• Privacy

• Advanced production systems– Industrial Robotics

• Benefits• Problems• Recommendations

• Adaptive robot servants and intellgent homes– Indoor Service Robots– Ubiquitous Robotics– Network Robotics (Internet Robotics, robot Ecology)

• Benefits• Problems• Recommendations

• Out door Robotics– Land– Sea– Air– Space

• Health care and life quality– Surgical robots– Bio Robotics– Assistive technology– Robotics in Computational technology

• Military Robotics– Intellegent weapons– Robot Soldiers– Superhumans

• Edutainment– Educational Robot Kits– Robot Toys– Entertainment

Ethics in Robotics

• Atleast three things we might mean

– The ethical systems built into robots,– The ethics of people who design and use

robots– The ethics of how people treat robots

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