Robots in aged care: a dystopian future?
Robots in aged care: a dystopian future?
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DOI：
10.1007/s00146-015-0625-4
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发表时间：
2016-11-01
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3
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Sparrow, Robert
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作者：
Sparrow, Robert
在本文中，我描述了这样一个未来：高龄老人完全由机器人照顾，并指出这将是一个反乌托邦的情景，如果可以的话，我们最好避免这种情况。关注福利的客观要素而非人们的幸福，揭示了尊重和认可在老年护理实践中的核心重要性，而这是机器人无法提供的。对当前老年护理行业经济状况的现实评估表明，在老年护理环境中引入机器人很可能会威胁而不是增进这些益处。我认为，因此，老年护理机器人技术很可能会按照一条通向这个反乌托邦未来的轨迹改变老年护理，即使这不是相关工程师的本意。虽然对于那些被照顾者选择允许机器人承担这一角色的老年护理情况，可以提出使用机器人的论点，但我认为，过度强调这种可能性有可能使其成为一个自我实现的预言，剥夺被照顾者有价值的社会认可，并且由于允许他人的设计选择决定他们可获得的选项，而无法给予老年人尊重。
In this paper I describe a future in which persons in advanced old age are cared for entirely by robots and suggest that this would be a dystopia, which we would be well advised to avoid if we can. Paying attention to the objective elements of welfare rather than to people's happiness reveals the central importance of respect and recognition, which robots cannot provide, to the practice of aged care. A realistic appreciation of the current economics of the aged care sector suggests that the introduction of robots into an aged care setting will most likely threaten rather than enhance these goods. I argue that, as a result, robotics for aged care is likely to transform aged care in accordance with a trajectory that leads towards this dystopian future even when this is not the intention of the engineers involved. While an argument can be made for the use of robots in aged care where the people being cared for have chosen to allow robots in this role, I suggest that overemphasising this possibility risks rendering it a self-fulfilling prophecy, depriving those being cared for of valuable social recognition, and failing to provide respect for older persons by allowing the options available to them to be shaped by the design choices of others.