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Ethics and Information Technology
Erschienen in: Ethics and Information Technology 1/2012

01.03.2012 | Original paper

Robots: ethical by design

verfasst von: Gordana Dodig Crnkovic, Baran Çürüklü

Erschienen in: Ethics and Information Technology | Ausgabe 1/2012

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Abstract

Among ethicists and engineers within robotics there is an ongoing discussion as to whether ethical robots are possible or even desirable. We answer both of these questions in the positive, based on an extensive literature study of existing arguments. Our contribution consists in bringing together and reinterpreting pieces of information from a variety of sources. One of the conclusions drawn is that artifactual morality must come in degrees and depend on the level of agency, autonomy and intelligence of the machine. Moral concerns for agents such as intelligent search machines are relatively simple, while highly intelligent and autonomous artifacts with significant impact and complex modes of agency must be equipped with more advanced ethical capabilities. Systems like cognitive robots are being developed that are expected to become part of our everyday lives in future decades. Thus, it is necessary to ensure that their behaviour is adequate. In an analogy with artificial intelligence, which is the ability of a machine to perform activities that would require intelligence in humans, artificial morality is considered to be the ability of a machine to perform activities that would require morality in humans. The capacity for artificial (artifactual) morality, such as artifactual agency, artifactual responsibility, artificial intentions, artificial (synthetic) emotions, etc., come in varying degrees and depend on the type of agent. As an illustration, we address the assurance of safety in modern High Reliability Organizations through responsibility distribution. In the same way that the concept of agency is generalized in the case of artificial agents, the concept of moral agency, including responsibility, is generalized too. We propose to look at artificial moral agents as having functional responsibilities within a network of distributed responsibilities in a socio-technological system. This does not take away the responsibilities of the other stakeholders in the system, but facilitates an understanding and regulation of such networks. It should be pointed out that the process of development must assume an evolutionary form with a number of iterations because the emergent properties of artifacts must be tested in real world situations with agents of increasing intelligence and moral competence. We see this paper as a contribution to the macro-level Requirement Engineering through discussion and analysis of general requirements for design of ethical robots.
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This understanding of the necessary connection of responsibility with blame builds on the underlying supposition that the error always is a problem of an individual agent and not a problem of a system as a whole. It also implies that the system of individual agents is regulated by order and punishment. This is fundamentally different from the modern safety culture approaches that, starting from individual responsibility, emphasize global properties of system safety.
 
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Davis (2010) e.g. distinguishes among nine senses of “responsibility”, one of those being (e) a responsibility as domain of tasks (things that one is supposed to do) –which is a type of responsibility we argue should be ascribed to robots.
 
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The Fukushima disaster reminds us how risky the nuclear industry is and how highly reliable it is under normal conditions. It also gives us reason to think about the consequences of rare catastrophic events.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Robots: ethical by design
verfasst von
Gordana Dodig Crnkovic
Baran Çürüklü
Publikationsdatum
01.03.2012
Verlag
Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in
Ethics and Information Technology / Ausgabe 1/2012
Print ISSN: 1388-1957
Elektronische ISSN: 1572-8439
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-011-9278-2

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