A code of ethics for robotics engineers

Ingram, John R.; Jones, Jones; Lewis, Camille Kaminski; Richards, Harriette; Rich,; Schachterle,

doi:10.1109/hri.2010.5453245

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“…The other was the Roboethics Roadmap [101], which sought to promote a cross-cultural discussion among scientists to monitor the effects of the robotics technologies currently in use. More recently, an initial sketch of a Code of Ethics for the robotic community has been proposed [43]. This code offers general guidelines for ethical behavior.…”

Section: Who or What Is Responsible When Robots Cause Harm?mentioning

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The Ethical Landscape of Robotics

Lichocki

Kahn

Billard

2011

IEEE Robot. Automat. Mag.

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Abstract-This paper surveys some of the main ethical issues pertaining to robotics that have been discussed in the literature. We start with the idea of responsibility ascription that arises when an autonomous system malfunctions or harms people. Next, we discuss various ethical issues emerging in two sets of robotic applications: service robots that peacefully interact with humans and lethal robots created to fight in battlefields. Then, we provide a short overview of machine ethics, a new research trend that aims at designing and implementing artificial systems with "morally" acceptable behavior. We then highlight resulting gaps in legislation, and discuss the need for guidelines to regulate the creation and deployment of such autonomous systems. Often, when designing such systems, the benefits tend to overshadow partly unknown but potentially large negative consequences.

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Section: Who or What Is Responsible When Robots Cause Harm?mentioning

confidence: 99%

The Ethical Landscape of Robotics

Lichocki

Kahn

Billard

2011

IEEE Robot. Automat. Mag.

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“…The authors also explain that they conducted research with focus groups and distributed an ethics survey to robotics engineers at the Robotics Innovation Competition and Conference to better encourage the broader acceptance of their new code of ethics. At the end of the paper the code of ethics agreed on by the group is listed and includes their future steps [4].…”

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Code of Ethics for Robotics: A Surgery Case Study

Almand

2022

WFEESS

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The future of robotics is broad and varied. New developments that delve deeper into the use of artificial intelligence and automation, for practices ranging from driver less cars to doctor less surgeries, calls for a defined code of cultural, ethical, and legal regulations that can guide engineers around the most delicate issues that may arise. With the reputation of the field resting on the evolution of a code of ethics this paper compares and discusses existing literature on the subject. With the foundation and influence of the existing literature this paper proposes a refined code of ethics designed to target the specific area of robotic engineering. It is also designed to remain applicable for future developments in the field. Having laid out the code it is then be applied to a case study focusing on surgery robots. Final recommendations and conclusions are made to advise future developments for an ethical code targeted at robotic engineers.

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“…The SIGCHI research ethics committee has been facilitating open conversations about ethical challenges in our communities through research ethics town halls and panels at CHI [39,88], CSCW [24,35], and GROUP [17]. Similar discussions for more ethical research have been pushed in disciplines such as natural language processing [56,84], computer vision [29], virtual reality [8,13,100], robotics [59,121], data management [3,114], and data mining [50].…”

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“That’s important, but...”: How Computer Science Researchers Anticipate Unintended Consequences of Their Research Innovations

Pang

Jiang

et al. 2023

Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Computer science research has led to many breakthrough innovations but has also been scrutinized for enabling technology that has negative, unintended consequences for society. Given the increasing discussions of ethics in the news and among researchers, we interviewed 20 researchers in various CS sub-disciplines to identify whether and how they consider potential unintended consequences of their research innovations. We show that considering unintended consequences is generally seen as important but rarely practiced. Principal barriers are a lack of formal process and strategy as well as the academic practice that prioritizes fast progress and publications. Drawing on these findings, we discuss approaches to support researchers in routinely considering unintended consequences, from bringing diverse perspectives through community participation to increasing incentives to investigate potential consequences. We intend for our work to pave the way for routine explorations of the societal implications of technological innovations before, during, and after the research process. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → HCI theory, concepts and models.

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A code of ethics for robotics engineers

Cited by 13 publications

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The Ethical Landscape of Robotics

The Ethical Landscape of Robotics

Code of Ethics for Robotics: A Surgery Case Study

“That’s important, but...”: How Computer Science Researchers Anticipate Unintended Consequences of Their Research Innovations

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