The Ethical Robot

  by Tony

Video:The ethical robot
Artical:The ethical dilemmas of robotics

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         Human like to challenge themselves, to exploit the technology that could bring more conveniences for our life. As we have improved on our Techniques, one of the achievement we have is robot. At first, robots are the replacement of human workforce; for example, the robot in the car industry which can built cars, and only couple of the programmers could control the whole industrial process. In the present, there are many science fiction story and movies that have the theme about intelligent robot, yet this is not only appeared in science fiction movies or books. Scientists can put the ethical principles into the robot, and some of the scientists begin to consider the ethical dilemmas that human have design for the robot.

Nao(Robot)

         A video from University of Connecticut described how the researchers want to the machine robot to treat us. Researchers are trying to computerize the ethics into robot. Scientists have built a technique called machine learning which can solve the different cases of ethical dilemma, and the answers of these cases were given by the ethicist . And then, they put this program into a robot called Nao, the experiment was use medical reminder system that they have built with "machine learning". When Nao reminded the researcher to take medicine, the researcher resisted the suggestion. Nao didn't force him to take the medicine, and said it reminded the researcher later. However, there is a simple ethical ramification in this experiment. Scientists believe if people are often not good at being ethical, and they could program a robot behave ethically; thus, robot can teach people behave better.

         The article from BBC News has discussed the ethical robots in the future. what would happen if robots have the intelligence as humans. Would they injure someone, or they have the abilities to resist human being. Currently, there is an expert in South Korea said that they were writing a moral code for the robot to prevent human to use robots for crime and illegal activities. Some of the scientist disagree with developing the intelligence of robot, they are afraid that the robots will become very sensitive to human behaviors. Even the famous "three laws of robotics" which was developed by Isaac Asimov couldn't solve the problem, like the movie "I, Robot". In my opinion, I think we should discover the potential from smart robot, because the great benefits in science always come up with big risk. We need to seek to know whether the benefits are worth for the risk or not.