The document discusses robo-ethics, highlighting the integration of robots into society and the implications for human interaction, self-awareness, and ethics of care. It suggests that robots may soon become ubiquitous like cars, raising questions about their use, societal risks, and social opportunities. Additionally, it emphasizes the cultural significance of robots in Japan and the need for new ethical frameworks to accommodate the changing landscape of human-robot relationships.

1. Robo-Ethics
Rafael Capurro ラファエル・カプーロ
International Center for Information Ethics
国際情報倫理学研究センター
http://www.capurro.de/home-jp.html
Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation - University of Tsukuba
Joint Symposium
Robo-Ethics and „Mind-Body-Schema“ of Human and Robot
Challenges for a Better Quality of Life
University of Tsukuba, Japan
January 23, 2015

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A Robot Age
Will robots be widespread
in the 21st century
similarly to cars in the
last century?
How quickly?

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A Robot Age
Will robots be widespread
in the 21st century
similarly to cars in the
last century?
Who will use them?

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A Robot Age
Will robots be widespread
in the 21st century
similarly to cars in the
last century?
For what purposes?

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A Robot Age
Will robots be widespread
in the 21st century
similarly to cars in the
last century?
With what kind of inbuilt
rules of behaviour?

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A Robot Age
Will robots be widespread
in the 21st century
similarly to cars in the
last century?
What are the social risks
and opportunities?

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A Robot Age
With what consequences
for:
• Self-awareness
• Everyday life
• Working environment
• Ecology
• Privacy / Publicness
• Safety / Security
• Surveillance

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Robots and Humans
A world of networked
robots
Sharing the world with
others

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Robots and Humans
What is a robot? Who are we?

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Robots and Humans
The more computable a
being is, the more and
the better it is.
Freedom: the capacity to
opt for diverse forms of
being-in-the-world.

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Robots and Humans
The more computable a
being is, the more and
the better it is
Feelings open dimensions
of being-in-the-world

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Robots and Humans
Being a robot is more and
better than being a
human
Sharing bodily the world
with others

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Robots and Humans
Linear robot time Three-dimensional human
(spatial-)temporality
Situation - Ba 場

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Ethics of Care
More subjected to linear
time
More free time

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Ethics of Care
Care tends to take the
place of the other,
Care opens up a path for
the other to care for him
or herself.
) from one pole in which such “care” tends to take the place of the

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Ethics of Care
Replacing humans Deplacing humans

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Ethics of Care
Dominating Liberating

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Ethics of Care
Exacerbating capitalism Taming capitalism

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Ethics of Care
Dehumanizing war A-humanizing war?

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Ethics of Care
Algorithms Rules of fair play

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Humans and Robots
What are we in the robot
era?
Who are we in the robot
era?

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Humans and Robots
Human-Robot interaction Human-Human interplay

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Humans and Robots
Culturally detached view
of robots
Cultural embeddedness of
humans

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Conclusion
Adapting social ‚immune
systems‘ (Sloterdijk) to
robots
Adapting robots to social
‚immune systems‘
免疫系（め んえきけい )
(me nekikei)

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Conclusion
Taking care of robots in
the robot era
Taking care of each other
in the common world

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Conclusion
Self and selfless robots Human self and
selflessness

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Conclusion
What are robots?
They are masks of human desire(s)

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Conclusion
Cosima Wagner writes in her book
„Robotopia Nipponica. Research on the
Acceptance of Robots in Japan“ (2013):
"[...] "social robots" illustrate the "negotiation
character of the creation and use of
technological artefacts" (Hörning), which
for example includes the rejection of
military applications of robot technology in
Japan.

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Conclusion
On the other hand, as a cultural topos, they
mirror dreams, desires and needs of
human beings at a certain time and
therefore have to be interpreted as political
objects as well.

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Conclusion
As a source for a Japanese history of
objects "social" robots exemplify the
cultural meaning of robots, the
expectations of the Japanese state and
economy, the mentality of Japanese
engineers and scientists

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Conclusion
and last but not least the socio-cultural
change, which the ageing Japanese
society is about to face.„ (Cosima Wagner,
2013)

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どうも 有難う 御座います

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References
Capurro, Rafael: Medicine 2.0. Reflections on a pathology of the information society. In:
Innovation, journal of appropriate librarianship and information work in Southern Africa,
Nr 46, June 2013 (Special Issue: Information Ethics, ed. Stephen Mutula) pp. 75-96.
http://www.capurro.de/Medicine2_0.html
Capurro, Rafael: Ethical Aspects of Biometrics. Contribution to Tabula Rasa (FP 7 2011:
Trusted Biometrics under Spoofing Attacks, Deliverable D 7.2) (Questions by Andrew P.
Rebera)
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Capurro, Rafael: Ethical Aspects of Value Ageing. (Questions by Barry Guihen)(FP 7, 2013)
http://www.capurro.de/value_ageing.html
http://cordis.europa.eu/result/rcn/60667_en.html

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Capurro, Rafael: Toward a Comparative Theory of Agents. In: AI & Society, Vol. 27,
4 (2012), 479-488.
http://www.capurro.de/agents.html
Capurro, Rafael: The Quest for Roboethics. Contribution to the Workshop organized
by Cybernics, University of Tsukuba (Japan), September 30, 2009. In: Cybernics
Technical Reports. Special Issue on Roboethics. University of Tsukuba 2011, 39-
59 (CYB-2011-001 -CYB-2011-008 March 2011).
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Capurro, Rafael: The Quest for Roboethics. In: IEEE ISTAS – International
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ETICA: Ethical Issues of Emerging ICT Applications (FP 7, 2009-2011):
Deliverable 3.2 Evaluation Report (M. Rader, ed.)
Deliverable 3.2.2 Ethical Evaluation (M. Nageborg, R. Capurro)
http://www.capurro.de/etica_deliv3.2.2.pdf
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Timmermans)
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