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CREATING MORAL ROBOTS Katherine Steen DEFINING TERMS Robot programmable machine that mimics human activities AI capability of a machine to imitate intelligence human behavior Autonomous independent/power to make own

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CREATING MORAL ROBOTS

Katherine Steen

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DEFINING TERMS

Robot – programmable machine that mimics human activities
AI – capability of a machine to imitate intelligence human

behavior

Autonomous – independent/power to make own decisions
Morality – social set of standards for good or bad behavior

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TYPES OF MORAL ROBOTS

1. Ethical Impact Agents
2. Implicit Ethical Agents
3. Explicit Ethical Agents
4. Full Ethical Agents

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#1: ETHICAL IMPACT AGENTS

Ethical

consequences for its actions

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#2: IMPLICIT ETHICAL AGENTS

Employ some

automatic ethical reaction to given situations

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#3: EXPLICIT ETHICAL AGENTS

Similar to Implicit
In addition: they use

general principles or rules of ethical conduct for various kinds of situations

Nao Robot Video

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#4: FULL ETHICAL AGENTS

Similar to Explicit
In addition:
Conscious
Intentionality
Free Will

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DEFINING MORAL ROBOT

“an artificially intelligent machine with capabilities

to make decisions based off a programmed set of social norms”

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THE PROBLEM

Figuring out how to

implement morals (right vs wrong) into robots when we do not know the answers ourselves

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THE PROBLEM CONTINUED…

Norms: a standard or

pattern, especially of social behavior, that is typical or expected

f a group

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THE THREE STEPS

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#1: MEASURE SOCIETY’S MORALS

Define ethical behavior in

measurable parameters

Agree upon the correct

moral decisions for a robots

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#2: COLLECT HUMAN MORALITY

Unbiased data of ethical

processes from millions

f people around the

world

Moral Machine Example

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#3: MAKE ROBOTS TRANSPARENT

Public needs to know ethical

values programmed into robots and their outcomes to trust them

Communication is key

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CONTROVERSY

Fear of killer robots from sci-fi

movies, video games, etc.

Should robots have morals?

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#1: DE-HUMANIZED WORKERS

Will children and the

elderly population be in the hands of emotionless robots instead of human empathy and sympathy they require?

Bias workers

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#2: RESPONSIBILITY

Robots are in the hands
f everyone (people with

good and bad morals)

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ETHICAL THEORIES

Kantianism
Rabota: “servitude of forced labor”
Theoretically, robots could have a conscious in the future
Creating moral robots is okay
Rule Utilitarianism
Beneficial Consequences: Improve the standard of living
Harmful Consequences: possible end of the human race
Harms are greater than Benefits à Creating moral robots is bad

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THE FUTURE

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MY OPINIONS

Excited for the future
Treat robots like teenagers
Fear society will restrict

further research and development of moral robots

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THE END

References:

Ethics for the information age
https://www.npr.org/2011/04/22/135634400/science-diction-the-origin-of-the-word-robot
https://www.robotshop.com/media/files/PDF/timeline.pdf
https://philosophynow.org/issues/72/Four_Kinds_of_Ethical_Robots
https://spectrum.ieee.org/video/robotics/robotics-software/how-to-build-a-moral-robot
https://www.nature.com/news/machine-ethics-the-robot-s-dilemma-1.17881
https://www.geekwire.com/2018/ethics-ai-robots-will-rise-will-rule-us/
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/11/3-ways-to-build-more-moral-robots/
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/autonomous
http://moralmachine.mit.edu
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/10/top-10-ethical-issues-in-artificial-intelligence/
https://aeon.co/essays/creating-robots-capable-of-moral-reasoning-is-like-parenting

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