Ethics for social robotics: A critical analysis
Abstract
Social robotics development for the practice of care and European prospects to incorporate these AI-based systems in institutional healthcare contexts call for an urgent ethical reflection to (re)configurate our practical life according to human values and rights. Despite the growing attention to the ethical implications of social robotics, the current debate on one of its central branches, social assistive robotics (SAR), rests upon an impoverished ethical approach. This paper presents and examines some tendencies of this prevailing approach, which have been identified as a result of a critical literature review. Based on this analysis of a representative case of how ethical reflection is being led towards social robotics, some future research lines are outlined, which may help reframe and deepen in its ethical implications.
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@article{arxiv.2207.12555,
title = {Ethics for social robotics: A critical analysis},
author = {Júlia Pareto Boada and Begoña Román Maestre and Carme Torras},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.12555},
year = {2022}
}
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in TRAITS Workshop Proceedings (arXiv:2206.08270) held in conjunction with Companion of the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, March 2022, Pages 1284-1286