Sometimes, we lie to others to protect their feelings. Maybe robots should be allowed to do the same.
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Robots are already carrying out tasks in clinics, classrooms and warehouses. Designing robots that are more receptive to human needs could help make them more useful in many contexts.
When it comes to trust, people like their robots to have human expressions – just not too human.
With advances in technology, robots and artificial intelligence have increasingly more sophisticated encounters with humans.
Robots and humans can be friends – but not in a way that would win Aristotle’s approval.
Robots are becoming more common in our lives. And while they may not have “feelings”, perhaps the way we treat them reflects more on our character than we previously thought.
Of course people need ethics. But the current troubles in the technology industry are not evidence of an ethics crisis; it is a public-policy crisis.
Robots have already learned to cheat when playing games. How do we teach them morals if we want them more involved in our everyday lives?
Robots are a twin-edged sword. Used badly, they may one day perpetrate genocide and war crimes. Used well, they can prevent them.
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PhD in machine ethics, University of Canterbury
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Senior lecturer, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor in Robotics, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor, Director of the Centre for Robotics, Queensland University of Technology
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Lecturer in Computer Science, Cardiff Metropolitan University
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Professor of Sociology and Technology, Horizon Fellow in AI and Ageing, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Digital Ethics; Deputy Director, Centre for AI and Digital Ethics, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Computer Science, Rice University
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Ph.D. Candidate, Robotics, University of Toronto
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Associate Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Senior Lecturer, School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Director of the Sheffield Robotics Institute, University of Sheffield
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Queensland University of Technology