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Computer and robot ethics
This document discusses the psychology of technology and ethics relating to computers and robots. It covers several topics: - Moral theories like utilitarianism and Kantianism and how they relate to issues like the trolley problem. - Robot ethics and Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics. - Persuasive technologies and ensuring they are used ethically. - Issues around autonomous systems and at what point robots require independent ethics. - Open questions around when a system becomes an entity with rights and how to balance human and computer agency.
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- 1. PSYCHOLOGY OF TECHNOLOGY: COMPUTER ANDROBOT ETHICS AND MORALITY DAVE MILLER
- 2. ITINERARY ETHICS ANDMORALITY MORAL THEORIES Utilitarianism Kantianism (The Categorical Imperative) THE BATTLE OF THE THEORIES The Trolley Problem (Foot, 1967; Thompson, 1973) PERSUASION ETHICS ROBOT ETHICS
- 3. ETHICAL THEORIES UTILITARIANISM:Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill “The Greatest Good for the Greatest Number” Act Utilitarianism: Calculate the utility Rule Utilitarianism: Follow the rule that should optimize utility Kant’s Categorical Imperative “Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law without contradiction.” If everybody acted this way, would it be a good situation?
- 4. THE TROLLEY PROBLEM (PhilippaFoot, 1967) © Jonas Kubilius
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- 6. VR FORCED CHOICEDECISION MAKING SKULMOWSKI ET AL., (2014)
- 7. ASIMOV’S LAWS (Asimov 1957, 1978 , 1985) 1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm 2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law 3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws
- 8. FOGG’S TREE OFETHICS
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- 10. QUESTIONABLY ETHICAL PERSUASIVE TECH:MOPy FISH Wikimedia Commons
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- 12. DISCUSSION At whatpoint is a robot or system no longer merely a tool but an entity with independent ethics and morals? At what point is a robot or system a “person” with rights of its own? How much independent agency should a system have? When should the computer listen to a human? When should the computer overrule a human?