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Robot Ethics : The Ethical and Social Implications of Robotics by Abney, Keith;Bekey, George A.;Lin, Patrick is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Prominent experts from science and the humanities explore issues in robot ethics that range from sex to war. Robots today serve in many roles, from entertainer to educator to executioner. As robotics technology advances, ethical concerns become more pressing: Should robots be programmed to follow a code of ethics, if this is even possible? Are there risks in forming emotional bonds with robots? How might society—and ethics—change with robotics? This volume is the first book to bring together prominent scholars and experts from both science and the humanities to explore these and other questions in this emerging field.Starting with an overview of the issues and relevant ethical theories, the topics flow naturally from the possibility of programming robot ethics to the ethical use of military robots in war to legal and policy questions, including liability and privacy concerns. The contributors then turn to human-robot emotional relationships, examining the ethical implications of robots as sexual partners, caregivers, and servants. Finally, they explore the possibility that robots, whether biological-computational hybrids or pure machines, should be given rights or moral considerati
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Abney, Keith;Bekey, George A.;Lin, Patrick
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780262297752
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Engineering, Philosophy, Social & Cultural Aspects Of Technology
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
Other editions & translations
- Robot Ethics: The Ethical and Social Implications of Robotics (Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents series) (2014)
- Robot Ethics: The Ethical and Social Implications of Robotics (Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents series) (2011)
- Robot 357 Success Secrets - 357 Most Asked Questions on Robot - What You Need to Know (2006)
- Robot Ethics: The Ethical and Social Implications of Robotics (Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents series) (2012)
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