Roboethics: A Branch of Applied Ethics

Roboethics involves the ethics of people who design, create and use robots, the ethical system embedded into robots, and the ethics of how people treat robots. Both short-term and long-term ethical issues should be continuously under examination, and the robot use should be compatible with the universal human rights. This chapter presents an elementary introduction to roboethics, including the top-down (deontological and consequentialist) approach, and the bottom-up (developmental/learning) approach. A brief discussion of the robot rights issue is also included.

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