Personal Robots, Appearance, and Human Good: A Methodological Reflection on Roboethics
Personal Robots, Appearance, and Human Good: A Methodological Reflection on Roboethics
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DOI：
10.1007/s12369-009-0026-2
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发表时间：
2009-08-01
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4.7
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Coeckelbergh, Mark
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作者：
Coeckelbergh, Mark
宠物机器人、玩具机器人和性爱机器人的发展表明，在不久的将来，人们会习惯性地与“个人”机器人生活在一起。我们应该如何评估它们对我们的生活质量和存在的潜在影响？在本文中，我提出了一种个人机器人伦理学的方法，主张从机器人到人类，从心灵到互动，从智能思维到社会情感存在，从现实到表象，从正确到好，从外部标准到好，从内部标准到实践，从理论到经验和想象。首先，我概述了我认为是机器人伦理学的一种常见方法，然后我概述了另一种方法的轮廓：个人机器人伦理学作为一种外观、人类善、经验和想象力的伦理学。其结果是一个以经验为依据的人类中心伦理学的草图，旨在理解和评估机器人对人类作为社会和情感生物的作用，特别是它们如何为人类的福祉和人类的繁荣做出贡献。从具体的经验和实践出发，对个体和文化差异足够敏感，这种方法邀请我们关注人类的美好是如何在人机交互中出现的，并想象与个人机器人一起生活的可能性，这些机器人有助于构成美好的人类生活。
The development of pet robots, toy robots, and sex robots suggests a near-future scenario of habitual living with 'personal' robots. How should we evaluate their potential impact on the quality of our lives and existence?In this paper, I argue for an approach to ethics of personal robots that advocates a methodological turn from robots to humans, from mind to interaction, from intelligent thinking to social-emotional being, from reality to appearance, from right to good, from external criteria to good internal to practice, and from theory to experience and imagination. First I outline what I take to be a common approach to roboethics, then I sketch the contours of an alternative methodology: ethics of personal robots as an ethics of appearance, human good, experience, and imagination.The result is a sketch of an empirically informed anthropocentric ethics that aims at understanding and evaluating what robots do to humans as social and emotional beings in virtue of their appearance, in particular how they may contribute to human good and human flourishing. Starting from concrete experience and practice and being sufficiently sensitive to individual and cultural differences, this approach invites us to be attentive to how human good emerges in human-robot interaction and to imagine, possibilities of living with personal robots that help to constitute good human lives.