Name: The New Rules of Robot/Human Society | Off Book | PBS Digital Studios
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Ethics applies in any context in which you introduce robots.

Robots are entering into a lot more areas of our lives

than ever before and taking on different social roles.

But I think we can't be naive about the possible harms

and repercussions that we don't even expect.

Because that will affect real people's lives.

I think we have a very powerfully ambivalent

And what I mean by that is, on the one hand

They're very compelling and captivating as objects.

But they also can be very scary in many cases.

There's a host of concerns about robotic systems.

to have roaming, roving cameras that are capturing

places that were not observed, are going to be observed.

And that data is all going to be captured and recorded.

And we really don't have any kind of laws and regulations

The other thing that makes these very different

These are physically engaged with the world.

And that means they can do a lot of harm in the physical world.

And Amazon is talking about these quadrotors or octorotors

that are going to be delivering packages to your front door.

My first concern is, well, that's eight lawn mower

blades coming down for a landing in front of your house,

especially if it's carrying a box of books.

Then you have a whole host of legal issues

around who's responsible when these things do some harm.

So there's the person who maybe owns the robot.

There's the person who programs it or maybe

The idea of who really shares in these kinds of responsibilities

Because a company that manufactures a robot,

to them bringing to market these different technologies.

But if we shift the law so that they don't have any liability

or we greatly limit the kind of liability that they can have,

we could wind up with a lot of really dangerous robots.

So we really have to kind of find a balance between these.

Asimov's three laws of robotics are pretty straightforward.

And a robot should then engage in effect self-preservation.

But if you actually read Asimov's stories,

in nearly every story, something goes awry largely because

So what happens if two humans give orders to the robots

He illustrated how just a simple rule-base morality does not

Robots are going to encounter some hair-raising scenarios.

With self-driving cars on a narrow bridge and a school bus

is headed toward it, what does it do Does it crash

Or does it drive off the bridge, taking you

and the other passengers in the car to immediate death?

In the ancient times, we used to believe that being moral

was to transcend all your emotional responses

into play, our ability to read the emotions of others,

of habits and rituals and the meaning of different gestures.

that kind of understanding or appreciation

So will their analytical tools be satisfactory?

make us liable to attribute levels or kinds of intelligence

to them that they do not have and may lead to situations

where we become increasingly reliant on them

know how to manage when that idiosyncratic and truly

I think the revolution in military robotics has been

I think just the widespread adoption and use

of the unmanned aerial systems by the US military.

don't really know who's necessarily controlling them.

If they've been programmed, again, who's responsible?

So it becomes much more easy to distance yourself

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