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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