As robots slip into more domains of human life-from the operating room to the bedroom-they take on our morally important tasks and decisions, as well as create new risks from psychological to physical. This book answers the urgent call to study their ethical, legal, and policy impacts.
Patrick Lin, Ph.D., is a philosophy professor and Director of the Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group at California Polytechnic State University. He is also affiliated with Stanford Law School, University of Notre Dame, and World Economic Forum; and previously with Stanford's School of Engineering, the U.S. Naval Academy, and Dartmouth College. On the ethics of emerging technologies, he has provided counsel to the U.S. Department of Defense, the United Nations, Google, Apple, and many other government and industry organizations. Ryan Jenkins, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of philosophy and a Senior Fellow at the Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group at California Polytechnic State University. He focuses on normative ethics (especially consequentialism) and applied ethics, including military ethics and emerging technologies such as driverless cars, robots, and autonomous weapons. Keith Abney, A.B.D., is senior lecturer in the Philosophy Department and a Senior Fellow at the Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group at California Polytechnic State University, with research that includes work on demarcating science from non-science, moral status and sustainability, astronaut and space bioethics, patenting life, human enhancement, just war theory and the use of autonomous weapons, robot ethics, and other aspects of the ethical implications of emerging sciences and technologies
Show moreAs robots slip into more domains of human life-from the operating room to the bedroom-they take on our morally important tasks and decisions, as well as create new risks from psychological to physical. This book answers the urgent call to study their ethical, legal, and policy impacts.
Patrick Lin, Ph.D., is a philosophy professor and Director of the Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group at California Polytechnic State University. He is also affiliated with Stanford Law School, University of Notre Dame, and World Economic Forum; and previously with Stanford's School of Engineering, the U.S. Naval Academy, and Dartmouth College. On the ethics of emerging technologies, he has provided counsel to the U.S. Department of Defense, the United Nations, Google, Apple, and many other government and industry organizations. Ryan Jenkins, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of philosophy and a Senior Fellow at the Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group at California Polytechnic State University. He focuses on normative ethics (especially consequentialism) and applied ethics, including military ethics and emerging technologies such as driverless cars, robots, and autonomous weapons. Keith Abney, A.B.D., is senior lecturer in the Philosophy Department and a Senior Fellow at the Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group at California Polytechnic State University, with research that includes work on demarcating science from non-science, moral status and sustainability, astronaut and space bioethics, patenting life, human enhancement, just war theory and the use of autonomous weapons, robot ethics, and other aspects of the ethical implications of emerging sciences and technologies
Show morePreface
I. Moral and Legal Responsibility
1. Autonomous Vehicles and Moral Uncertainty Vikram Bhargava and
Tae Wan Kim
2. Ethics Settings for Autonomous Vehicles Jason Millar
3. Autonomy and Responsibility in Hybrid Systems: The Example of
Autonomous Cars Wulf Loh and Janina Sombetzki
4. Imputing Driverhood: Applying a Reasonable Driver Standard to
Accidents Caused by Autonomous Vehicles Jeffery K. Gurney
5. Liability Law for Present and Future Robotics Technology Trevor
N. White and Seth D. Baum
6. Skilled Perception, Authenticity, and the Case Against
Automation David Zoller
II. Trust and Human-Robot Interactions
7. Could a Robot Care? It's All in the Movement Darian Meacham and
Matthew Studley
8. Robot Friends for Autistic Children: Monopoly Money or
Counterfeit Currency? Alexis Elder
9. Pediatric Robotics and Ethics: The Robot Is Ready to See You
Now, But Should It Be Trusted? Jason Borenstein, Ayanna Howard, and
Alan R. Wagner
10. Trust and Human-Robot Interactions Jesse Kirkpatrick, Erin N.
Hahn, and Amy J. Haufler
11. White Lies on Silver Tongues: Why Robots Need to Deceive (and
How) Alistair M. C. Isaac and Will Bridewell
12. "Who's Johnny?" Anthropomorphic Framing in Human-Robot
Interaction, Integration, and Policy Kate Darling
III. Applications: From Love to War
13. Lovotics: Human-Robot Love and Sex Relationships Adrian David
Cheok, Kasun Karunanayaka, and Emma Yann Zhang
14. Church-Turing Lovers Piotr Boltuc
15. The Internet of Things and Dual Layers of Ethical Concern Adam
Henschke
16. Challenges to Engineering Moral Reasoners: Time and Context
Michal Klincewicz
17. When Robots Should Do the Wrong Thing Brian Talbot, Ryan
Jenkins, and Duncan Purves
18. Military Robots and the Likelihood of Armed Combat Leonard
Kahn
IV. The Future of AI and Robotics
19. Testing the Moral Status of Artificial Beings, or "I'm Going to
Ask You Some Questions" Michael LaBossiere
20. Artificial Identity James DiGiovanna
21. Superintelligence as Superethical Steve Petersen
22. Artificial Intelligence and the Ethics of Self-Learning Robots
Shannon Vallor and George Bekey
23. Robots and Space Ethics Keith Abney
24. On the Unabomber and Robots: The Need for a Philosophy of
Technology Geared Toward Human Ends Jai Galliott
Biosketches
Patrick Lin, Ph.D., is a philosophy professor and Director of the
Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group at California Polytechnic State
University. He is also affiliated with Stanford Law School,
University of Notre Dame, and World Economic Forum; and previously
with Stanford's School of Engineering, the U.S. Naval Academy, and
Dartmouth College. On the ethics of emerging technologies, he has
provided counsel to the U.S. Department of Defense, the
United Nations, Google, Apple, and many other government and
industry organizations.
Ryan Jenkins, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of philosophy and a
Senior Fellow at the Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group at California
Polytechnic State University. He focuses on normative ethics
(especially consequentialism) and applied ethics, including
military ethics and emerging technologies such as driverless cars,
robots, and autonomous weapons.
Keith Abney, A.B.D., is senior lecturer in the Philosophy
Department and a Senior Fellow at the Ethics + Emerging Sciences
Group at California Polytechnic State University, with research
that includes work on demarcating science from non-science, moral
status and sustainability, astronaut and space bioethics, patenting
life, human enhancement, just war theory and the use of autonomous
weapons, robot ethics, and other aspects of the ethical
implications of emerging sciences and
technologies
"They have done an admirable job of organ-izing the material on a
wide range of topics, and 2.0 provides a useful addition to 1.0 for
exploring the new debates in this field." -- Derek Leben,
Metascience
"The philosophy of technology, particularly its ethics, carries a
heavy burden right now. This book is an excellent guide to the
reasons why that burden is so pressing, and... offers a really
strong roadmap of where we are, and where we ought to go." -- Robin
L. Zebrowski, Departments of Philosophy, Psychology and Computer
Science, Beloit College, Prometheus
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