Robpocalypse: The Ethical Concerns For Robots

Robots can effect employment in a negative way,as said by the author Kelly “It may be hard to believe… 70 percent of today’s occupation will likewise be replaced by automation...even you will have your job taken away by machines”(Kelly Page.300), this quote comes to show the negative aspect of robots taking over the world in the near

In his 2011 The Chronicle Review article “Programmed for Love” Jeffrey R. Young interviews Professor Sherry Turkle about her experience with what she calls “sociable robots”. Turkle has spent 15 years studying robotics and its social emergence into society. After extensive research and experimenting with the robots, she believes that soon they will be programmed to perform specific tasks that a human would normally do. While this may seem like a positive step forward to some people, Turkle fears the worst. The article states that she finds this concept “demeaning, ‘transgressive,’ and damaging to our collective sense of humanity.” (Young, par. 5). She accredits this to her personal and professional experience with the robots. Turkle and her

At work, people are claiming to be too busy on their devices to be able to have conversations. In fact, they do not want to have the face to face interaction, but would “rather just do things on [their] blackberry” (136). Moreover, a “sixteen-year-old boy who relies on texting for almost everything says wistfully, ‘Someday, someday, but certainly not now, I’d like to learn how to have a conversation’” (136). The reliance on technology has increased significantly and the necessity for conversation has pivoted. A teenage boy confesses that he feels more comfortable talking to an “artificial intelligence program” (138) about dating instead of his own father. Similarly, many people want “Siri, the digital assistant on Apple’s iPhone, [to become] more advanced, [because] ‘she’ will be more and more like a best friend” (138). Robots are being given more credit for comforting humans than humans themselves. Not only are the younger generations thinking this, but also the elders. When Turkle brought a baby seal robot to a nursing home, an elder woman began to speak to it and feel comforted by it. It is a tragedy that humans are feeling a deeper connection with robots than other humans. Humans have the experiences and the feelings that the robots are not capable of having. Hence, there is confusion about the difference between conversation and

With Robots becoming a popular part of our everyday lives people are beginning to question if people are treating robots with the same respect that they treat people with. Researchers are also beginning to wonder if there need to be laws to protect robots from being tortured or even killed. Scientists have done research to test and see if people react the same to robots as they would to actual people or animals. In Is it Okay to Torture or Murder a Robot Richard Fisher contemplates the reason on why it is wrong to hurt or kill a robot by using a stern and unbiased tone.

“Just as the sun will rise tomorrow morning, so too will robots in our society.” Frank Mullin accurately explains the growing role of robot pets worldwide. Robot pets, are the adorable synthetic toys, that warm the hearts of thousands with their almost life-like movements. Once just a thought and a dream, robot pets now grace the shelves of department stores. Along with their wide popularity comes a question; “Should robotic pets replace real pets?” Well, they interact differently, and are frankly just programmed to do what one sees. Allowing robotic pets is depriving people of the interactions they experience with real pets, and does not nourish responsibility. For now, robotic pets should be left on the shelves because they will never provide

The debate over whether robots are helping or hurting the workplace is more heated than ever. Advances in technology are soaring thus making an increase in the use of robots in the workplace more and more commonplace. Some believe the use of robots in the workplace can never totally result in the loss of jobs, but due to the fact that robots have invaded the workplace environment, many people fear this indicates replacement of human jobs. Although advancement in technology of robotics and artificial intelligence may offer precision, productivity, efficiency and flexibility, the loss of human jobs will be devastating to the many people who depend on their jobs to make a living and provide for their families.

Jerry West’s article “Robots on Earth” talks about robots that, unlike books or movies, aid people simplifying their lives and health. As robots don’t need specific conditions; they are perfect for performing jobs that might be harmful to humans. Like the R2 humanoid at the International Space Station, which completes dangerous and mundane tasks for astronauts and frees their time. They also boost our health; they are working with scientists to create an exoskeleton for quadriplegic people. Robots aren’t evil, they’re useful machines that have so much to offer and make our lives safer.lives

Turkle speaks about her occupation at MIT where analysts experiment with robots by propelling its capacity to be instructors, home associates and closest companions which focuses on specific age groups but particularly to the elderly (2015). According to statistics there is no position available in this field to take care of the old due to the population of less younger people. Therefore, researchers at MIT trusts the making of ‘caring machines’. For this reason, Turkle indicates roboticists are not by any means the only individuals with this thought, there has been chatter from others that is not in the robotic world (2015). Therefore, humans trust the idea of having robots taking care of the elderly rather than people. The reasons is that humans are thought to be cruel where the overseer can steal or be abusive (Turkle 2015). Strangely enough, this shows grown ups have turned out to be so contributed with technology, believing a robot can talk and care a for a person. Additionally, it demonstrates a discrimination against mankind, due to not trusting the ability of a human being. Furthermore, this creates the lack of living life and facing reality. As a result, artificial intelligence has driven into the adults’ minds where they trust that contact with robots is great yet it is definitely

Daniel Suarez is against the evolution of robots and creating robots with the power to kill. The new technological inventions are taking power and responsibility away from humans and putting it into the hands of the machines. This creates a new problem where the machines, especially autonomous weapons in the military, have increased power and are vulnerable to hacking that could cause them to turn on us. By creating lethally autonomous robotic weapons, fewer people will fight in wars and risk their lives, thus increasing the power of the few because they will not require as much assistance anymore. Combat drones contain dozens of cameras that create so much footage that we will need to create software to process all of it. That means the visual

Lately there have been more and more smart machines that have been taking over regular human tasks but as it grows the bigger picture is that robots will take over a lot of tasks now done by people. But, many people think that there are important ethical and moral issues that have to be dealt with this. Sooner or later there is going to be a robot that will interact in a humane manner but there are many questions to be asked like; how will they interact with us? Do we really want machines that are independent, self-directed, and has affect and emotion? I think we do, because they can provide many benefits. Obviously, as with all technologies, there are dangers as well. We need to ensure that people always

Another big ethical issue raised in the move is whether or not robots could be used to fight wars. This ethical issue just likes the other in the fact that it revolves on the lack of emotional or compassion component of the robots. Robots can be programed for the protection of individuals but because of their lack of compassion or emotion they would not know when to stop the attack.

There are people who argue that war machines are not reliable as they cannot make ethical decisions. However, according to Anderson and Anderson(2010, p. 74) there might be some possibilities that ethics can be programmed into robots. However, even now the moral standard of human themselves has not been established and without universally acknowledged moral standard, it will be difficult to be programmed into robots (Anderson et all, 2010; Munro, 2015). Without any definite moral standards, the robots will always have problems in society as the ethics are different in each parts of the worlds. Robots robots will not be able to be used as a weapon to war as it even will have trouble

While that dystopian future may seem rather extreme, a more modest proposal would follow that robots may not be eating babies, but they uncertainly threaten the value of our time within a workplace. Machines, to many companies, are a

What image comes to mind when one hears the words “Killer Robot”? If one visualises the laser-wielding android in Terminator 2 which threatens to overpower its defenceless human adversaries, one would not be too far from the truth[1]. Today, advanced robots capable of engaging a human target autonomously are no longer confined to fiction but are instead rapidly becoming a reality.

According to the text, robots do everything for us, whatever we tell them to do, but "Are robots slowly but surely taking over the world? It's an exciting thought for some but scary for thousands of others." In other words, lots of people are happy about the fact that robots are here to help us, but in other hand people think robots are slowly taking over our world. For example, owners of company are elated about the fact of substituting humans with robots, which is hurting the people who is being