The New Rules of Robot-Human Society

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PBS Off Book recently looked at the questions: How should robots be programmed to interact with us? How should we treat robots? And who is responsible for a robot's actions?

As technology speeds forward, humans are beginning to imagine the day when robots will fill the roles promised to us in science fiction. But what should we be thinking about now, as robots like military and delivery drones become a real part of our society?

PBS Off Book recently looked at the questions: How should robots be programmed to interact with us? How should we treat robots? And who is responsible for a robot's actions?

Peter Asaro says, "I love robots, I want to build robots but I think we can be naive about the possible harms and repercussions we don't even expect because that will affect people's
lives."

Image Source - Boston Dynamics

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Asaro, PhD Assistant Professor, The New School, Wendell Wallach, Ethicist & Scholar, Yale University's Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics and Kate Darling, Robot Ethics Researcher, MIT Media Lab look at the unexpected impact of new technologies, we are obligated as a society to consider the moral and ethical implications of robotics.

"If we put a red line in the sand right now," says Wallach, "it doesn't mean that we will never see Terminator-like creatures, but it means we're trying to design in the appropriate ethical considerations in today's systems."


SOURCE  PBSoffbook

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