Empathic Machines?

Brand, Cordula; Bossert, Leonie; Potthast, Thomas

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“…Across different perspectives, the concept of community has often been associated with a notion of ‘a good life’ or otherwise positive experience ( Taylor, 1989 ; Bauman, 2000 ; Day, 2006 ) (the approach sometimes criticised for being overly romantic when discussing traditional communities and their disappearance [( Day, 2006 ): 32] ( Bauman, 2000 )). Some works that have explicitly used such a notion in relation to social robots have also argued that the concept of a good life in this context should be understood as “a rich social life” [( Brand et al, 2023 ): 166]. Last but not least, communities can be seen as social and symbolic constructs that are “constituted by processes occurring close to the experience of everyday life” [( Day, 2006 ): 159].…”

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Towards a conceptualisation and critique of everyday life in HRI

Zawieska,

Hannibal

2023

Front. Robot. AI

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This paper focuses on the topic of “everyday life” as it is addressed in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) research. It starts from the argument that while human daily life with social robots has been increasingly discussed and studied in HRI, the concept of everyday life lacks clarity or systematic analysis, and it plays only a secondary role in supporting the study of the key HRI topics. In order to help conceptualise everyday life as a research theme in HRI in its own right, we provide an overview of the Social Science and Humanities (SSH) perspectives on everyday life and lived experiences, particularly in sociology, and identify the key elements that may serve to further develop and empirically study such a concept in HRI. We propose new angles of analysis that may help better explore unique aspects of human engagement with social robots. We look at the everyday not just as a reality as we know it (i.e., the realm of the “ordinary”) but also as the future that we need to envision and strive to materialise (i.e., the transformation that will take place through the “extraordinary” that comes with social robots). Finally, we argue that HRI research would benefit not only from engaging with a systematic conceptualisation but also critique of the contemporary everyday life with social robots. This is how HRI studies could play an important role in challenging the current ways of understanding of what makes different aspects of the human world “natural” and ultimately help bringing a social change towards what we consider a “good life.”

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Section: Towards Hri Of Everyday Lifementioning

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Towards a conceptualisation and critique of everyday life in HRI

Zawieska,

Hannibal

2023

Front. Robot. AI

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“…What is common for these discussions—about AI, SD as well as sustainable AI—is that they are predominantly morally anthropocentric in nature, that is, only take human interests into account and hold this to be morally sufficient. AI ethics is concerned about how the technologies can and should be designed, developed, and used for benefiting humans while not violating crucial human interests, for example, reproducing sexist, racist, or classist biases (Barocas & Selbst, 2016), diminishing privacy (Stahl & Wright, 2018) or replacing esteemed human interactions (Brand et al, 2023). SD is often referred to as being about how to meet the needs of all human beings living today “without compromising future generations [of humans] to meet their own needs” (WCED, 1987, chapter 2).…”

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The ethics of sustainable AI: Why animals (should) matter for a sustainable use of AI

Bossert

Hagendorff

2023

Sustainable Development

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Technologies equipped with artificial intelligence (AI) influence our everyday lives in a variety of ways. Due to their contribution to greenhouse gas emissions, their high use of energy, but also their impact on fairness issues, these technologies are increasingly discussed in the “sustainable AI” discourse. However, current “sustainable AI” approaches remain anthropocentric. In this article, we argue from the perspective of applied ethics that such anthropocentric outlook falls short. We present a sentientist approach, arguing that the normative foundation of sustainability and sustainable development—that is, theories of intra‐ and intergenerational justice—should include sentient animals. Consequently, theories of sustainable AI must also be non‐anthropocentric. Moreover, we investigate consequences of our approach for applying AI technologies in a sustainable way.

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Empathic Machines?

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Towards a conceptualisation and critique of everyday life in HRI

Towards a conceptualisation and critique of everyday life in HRI

The ethics of sustainable AI: Why animals (should) matter for a sustainable use of AI

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