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Close Engagements with Artificial Companions: Key social, psychological, ethical and design issuesEdited by Yorick Wilks
[Natural Language Processing 8] 2010
► pp. 63–74
Robots should be slaves
Robots should not be described as persons, nor given legal nor moral responsibility for their actions. Robots are fully owned by us. We determine their goals and behavior, either directly or indirectly through specifying their intelligence or how their intelligence is acquired. In humanising them, we not only further dehumanise real people, but also encourage poor human decision making in the allocation of resources and responsibility. This is true at both the individual and the institutional level. This chapter describes both causes and consequences of these errors, including consequences already present in society. I make specific proposals for best incorporating robots into our society. The potential of robotics should be understood as the potential to extend our own abilities and to address our own goals.
Published online: 24 March 2010
https://doi.org/10.1075/nlp.8.11bry
https://doi.org/10.1075/nlp.8.11bry
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