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Link: Industrial standards will deal with robot ethics

1 Post author: polymathwannabe 06 October 2014 11:13PM

"The ISO’s update will, for instance, include guidance on the maximum force with which a robot may strike a human it is working with."

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/531356/should-industrial-robots-be-able-to-hurt-their-human-coworkers/

Comments (3)

Comment author: [deleted] 07 October 2014 04:19:35PM *  2 points [-]

What has that to do with ethics? That's simply putting limits in place to prevent unintended consequences. Ethics would be stating under what circumstances a robot may purposefully strike a human in the first place.

Comment author: DanArmak 11 October 2014 04:57:03PM *  0 points [-]

My client wasn't working with that human I struck; he was just a random passer-by. There are no ISO guidelines under which he may be convicted.

-- Robot lawyer

After robot ethics, will we introduce robot moral culpability, robot self-preservation and robot punishment?

Comment author: Viliam_Bur 10 October 2014 02:36:02PM 0 points [-]

"Robot, help me, I am falling into an abyss, give me your hand!"

"Sorry, human, but using a force equivalent to your weight would be unethical. I am going to report you to the HR department for trying to convince me to act against my ethical guidelines."