Gender/ing guides how we view ourselves, the world around us, and each other—including
non-humans. Critical voices have raised the alarm about stereotyped gendering in the …

A key capability of morally competent robots is to reject or question potentially immoral
human commands. However, robot rejections of inappropriate commands must be phrased …

Motivated by inconsistent, underspecified, or otherwise problematic theories and usages of
social agency in the HRI literature, and leveraging philosophical work on moral agency, we …

Social robots will inevitably confront social or moral norm violations. While researchers have
identified preliminary strategies for when and how robots should respond in such situations …

Empirical studies have suggested that language-capable robots have the persuasive power
to shape the shared moral norms based on how they respond to human norm violations …

Research has shown that gendered robot designs prompt users to carry their gender biases
into human-robot interactions. Yet avoiding gendered designs in human-robot interaction …

Language-capable robots require moral competence, including representations and
algorithms for moral reasoning and moral communication. We argue for an ethical pluralist …

Abstract Language-enabled robots with moral reasoning capabilities will inevitably face
situations in which they have to respond to human commands that might violate normative …

For social robots to succeed in human environments, they must respond in effective yet
appropriate ways when humans violate social and moral norms, eg, when humans give …

It is critical for designers of language-capable robots to enable some degree of moral
competence in those robots. This is especially critical at this point in history due to the …