Robot Ethics
About This Book
Robots are entering factories, homes, hospitals, cars, and the military, and this book asks what moral problems come with them. It asks whether a robot can be a moral agent, whether it can be held responsible for what it does, and whether people have any obligations to machines. It also asks whether automation will take human jobs. The book is part of the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series and is written by philosopher Mark Coeckelbergh. Coeckelbergh looks at a range of technologies, from industrial machines that take over human work to social robots that may threaten privacy, and from robots in health care that may affect the quality of patient care to military drones. For each, he identifies the ethical consequences of its use. A central claim is that these questions concern humans as much as they concern machines. He also takes up whether a machine can be moral or can have morality built into it, how we come to assign moral status to non-human entities, and whether machines should be allowed to make life-and-death decisions. In his view, robots can serve as a lens for reflecting on what it means to be human. He argues that robot ethics is not only applied ethics but also a distinct way of doing philosophy.
ISBN: 9780262544092
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