Development of the intelligent autonomous robot technology presupposes its anticipated
beneficial effect on the individuals and societies. In the case of such disruptive emergent …

The" ethical by design" approach involves examining all stages of a lifecycle of technology
to ensure that they are ethically justifiable and socially sustainable. Building on our work on …

Concerns over the risks associated with advances in Artificial Intelligence have prompted
calls for greater efforts toward robust and beneficial AI, including machine ethics. Recently …

The robot population is rising on Earth and other planets.(Mars is inhabited entirely by
robots.) As robots slip into more domains of human life--from the operating room to the …

Since the publication of the first volume on robot ethics in 2012, things have significantly
changed. The trans-and interdisciplinary field of robot ethics became larger; more and more …

The influence of the humanities on the study of a technological subject like robotics needs to
rapidly grow, for the simple reason that robotics is becoming a part of humanity: assisting …

Both the ethics of autonomous systems and the problems of their technical implementation
have by now been studied in some detail. Less attention has been given to the areas in …

The increasing deployment of robotic technology in many domains of human life will have a
substantial impact on the economic, social and cultural tissues of our societies. Though one …

Recent work in both academia, industry, and journalism has brought widespread attention to
various kinds of harmful impact that AI can have on society. These are very often …

As robots slip into more domains of human life-from the operating room to the bedroom-they
take on our morally important tasks and decisions, as well as create new risks from …