To Forget or Not to Forget : Towards a Roboethical Memory Control

A long-term human robot interaction (HRI), which involves data storage of personal information, naturally rai ses ethical issues as a primary concern. This paper is an attempt to rise t o this challenge by speculating how to best build and control a “rob oethical” memory for a robot companion. We believe that memory is a n essential feature in the design of a robot mind for this kind o f longterm HRI. Hence, this work tries to create a link between “hum anlike” memory modelling and the new Roboethics discipline. W e embark on this endeavour by proposing forgetting mechanisms t hat would dictate what the robot companion should and should not forget in addition to suggesting a primary experiment to test th e memory prototype.

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