Civilizing Drones by Design

Wynsberghe, Amy Louise van; Nagenborg, Michael

doi:10.4324/9781315578187-9

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“…Capability caution refers to the need for careful definition of the upper limits of technological capabilities, and to developing and operating technology “within secure constraints” (Floridi et al 2018 ). It could be argued that many risks of drones come from their possessing more capabilities than necessary to perform the task at hand, such as privacy risks resulting from unnecessary image collection (van Wynsberghe and Nagenborg 2016 ). Another capability risk arises when drones developed in a military context are applied to civil applications (sometimes called “dual use”), and vice versa (van Wynsberghe and Nagenborg 2016 ).…”

Section: Translating Ethical Principles Into Valuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It could be argued that many risks of drones come from their possessing more capabilities than necessary to perform the task at hand, such as privacy risks resulting from unnecessary image collection (van Wynsberghe and Nagenborg 2016 ). Another capability risk arises when drones developed in a military context are applied to civil applications (sometimes called “dual use”), and vice versa (van Wynsberghe and Nagenborg 2016 ). Military drones possess capabilities and support values which are not relevant, or at least not as relevant, in civilian contexts, such as survivability (van Wynsberghe and Nagenborg 2016 ).…”

Section: Translating Ethical Principles Into Valuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Another capability risk arises when drones developed in a military context are applied to civil applications (sometimes called “dual use”), and vice versa (van Wynsberghe and Nagenborg 2016 ). Military drones possess capabilities and support values which are not relevant, or at least not as relevant, in civilian contexts, such as survivability (van Wynsberghe and Nagenborg 2016 ). Dual use can have important implications from a performance perspective as well, as the context of use is critical in the development of robust design requirements.…”

Section: Translating Ethical Principles Into Valuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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An Ethical Framework for the Design, Development, Implementation, and Assessment of Drones Used in Public Healthcare

Cawthorne

Wynsberghe

2020

Sci Eng Ethics

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The use of drones in public healthcare is suggested as a means to improve efficiency under constrained resources and personnel. This paper begins by framing drones in healthcare as a social experiment where ethical guidelines are needed to protect those impacted while fully realizing the benefits the technology offers. Then we propose an ethical framework to facilitate the design, development, implementation, and assessment of drones used in public healthcare. Given the healthcare context, we structure the framework according to the four bioethics principles: beneficence, non-maleficence, autonomy, and justice, plus a fifth principle from artificial intelligence ethics: explicability. These principles are abstract which makes operationalization a challenge; therefore, we suggest an approach of translation according to a values hierarchy whereby the top-level ethical principles are translated into relevant human values within the domain. The resulting framework is an applied ethics tool that facilitates awareness of relevant ethical issues during the design, development, implementation, and assessment of drones in public healthcare.

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Section: Translating Ethical Principles Into Valuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Translating Ethical Principles Into Valuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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An Ethical Framework for the Design, Development, Implementation, and Assessment of Drones Used in Public Healthcare

Cawthorne

Wynsberghe

2020

Sci Eng Ethics

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“…The cargo drone case was considered relevant for several reasons. It is a paradigmatic example of “applied” VSD while responding to the need of “civilizing drones by design” (Wynsberghe and Nagenborg In Di Nucci and Santoni de Sio 2016 , p. 148). Even though VSD is not explicitly adopted by the drone creators, a set of ethical-social values undoubtedly motivate the original technological embodiment of the cargo drone prototype.…”

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“…Major problems are in relation to transparency , legitimacy and accountability of values and goals chosen to substantiate VSD-based technological design. Often, drones are announced as able to eliminate “dull, dirty or dangerous jobs” (Finn and Wright 2012 In Di Nucci and Santoni de Sio 2016 , p. 148). But there could be occasions in which implementing a drone delivery service can be socially unfeasible if it proved to be too controversial or too highly detrimental for one or more local stakeholder.…”

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Refining Value Sensitive Design: A (Capability-Based) Procedural Ethics Approach to Technological Design for Well-Being

Cenci

Cawthorne

2020

Sci Eng Ethics

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Fundamental questions in value sensitive design include whether and how high-tech products/artefacts could embody values and ethical ideals, and how plural and incommensurable values of ethical and social importance could be chosen rationally and objectively at a collective level. By using a humanitarian cargo drone study as a starting point, this paper tackles the challenges that VSD’s lack of commitment to a specific ethical theory generates in practical applications. Besides, it highlights how mainstream ethical approaches usually related to VSD are incapable of solving main ethical dilemmas raised by technological design for well-being in democratic settings. Accordingly, it is argued that VSD’s ethical-democratic import would substantially be enhanced by the espousal of a procedural ethics stance and the deliberative approach to value and welfare entailed by Amartya Sen’s capability approach. Differently from rival ethical–political theories, its normative and meta-ethical foundations better handle human diversity, value-goal pluralism, conflicting vested interests as well as the epistemic-moral disagreements typical of contemporary complex democracies. Particularly, Sen’s capability approach procedural-deliberative tenets result in an “objective-impartial” choice procedure selecting a “hierarchy” of plural incommensurable values and rational goals thus, suitable to validate an applied science such as welfare-oriented technological design in concrete social environments. Conclusions suggest that refining VSD with a capability-based procedural approach to ethics fosters the concern for democracy and social justice while preserving vital scientific-technical standards. Major advantages are at an applied level to delivering ethically and socially justified, but yet highly functional technologies and high-tech products/artefacts.

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Robot Ethics: Ethical Design Considerations

Cawthorne

2022

Foundations of Robotics

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Civilizing Drones by Design

Cited by 9 publications

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An Ethical Framework for the Design, Development, Implementation, and Assessment of Drones Used in Public Healthcare

An Ethical Framework for the Design, Development, Implementation, and Assessment of Drones Used in Public Healthcare

Refining Value Sensitive Design: A (Capability-Based) Procedural Ethics Approach to Technological Design for Well-Being

Robot Ethics: Ethical Design Considerations

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