Robot Rights: Fundamentals and Applications

By Fouad Sabry

What Is Robot Rights

The study of robot ethics, which is also referred to as "roboethics," focuses on the ethical dilemmas that arise with robots, such as whether or not robots constitute a threat to humans in the long run or in the short run, whether or not certain applications of robots are problematic, and how robots should be constructed in order for them to behave "ethically." Alternately, the term "roboethics" refers to the ethics of human behavior toward robots, particularly in light of the rapid advancements being made in robot technology. It is a subfield of the ethics of technology, more specifically information technology, and it has tight linkages to both legal and socio-economic concerns. This topic is known as robot ethics. Researchers from a wide variety of fields are starting to investigate the moral and ethical implications of developing robotic technology and introducing it into communities in a way that will not compromise the protection of the human species.

How You Will Benefit

(I) Insights, and validations about the following topics:

Chapter 1: Robot Ethics

Chapter 2: Robot

Chapter 3: Laws of Robotics

Chapter 4: Human-Robot Interaction

Chapter 5: Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

Chapter 6: Machine Ethics

Chapter 7: The Machine Question

Chapter 8: Robotic Governance

Chapter 9: Regulation of Algorithms

Chapter 10: Regulation of Artificial Intelligence

(II) Answering the public top questions about robot rights.

(III) Real world examples for the usage of robot rights in many fields.

Who This Book Is For

Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of robot rights.

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Chapter 1: Robot ethics

The study of robot ethics, which is also referred to as roboethics, focuses on the moral issues that are raised by robots, such as whether or not robots pose a threat to humans in the long or short run, whether or not certain applications of robots (like those used in healthcare or as killer robots in war) are problematic, and how robots should be designed so that they behave ethically (this last concern is also called machine ethics). Alternately, the term roboethics refers to the ethics of human conduct toward robots, particularly in light of the rapid advancements being made in robot technology.

The handling of non-human or non-biological entities and their possible spirituality is a topic that has been at the center of much of the debate around ethics. This idea was also applied to the field of robotics, which brings us to another fundamental theme that has to do with the evolution of machines and ultimately robots. Runaround (story), a science fiction short story written by Isaac Asimov in 1942, was one of the first publications to directly address and set the foundation for robot ethics. The story featured Asimov's well-known Three Laws of Robotics, and it was considered one of the first publications to directly address and set the foundation for robot ethics. In the context of his science fiction writings, Asimov made consistent adjustments to these three laws, and in the end, he added a fourth rule, which he referred to as the zeroth law, to come before the first three. Gianmarco Veruggio is the one who most likely came up with the word roboethics as a shorthand. This Roboethics Symposium came about as a result of the work done by the School of Robotics, which is a charitable organization whose mission is to increase awareness of the field of robotics research among students and the general public. After having conversations with students and others who were not experts in the field, Gianmarco Veruggio and Fiorella Operto came to the conclusion that it was essential to disseminate accurate perceptions among the general public about the purported hazards that are associated with robotics. They believed that a fruitful debate that was based on accurate insights and real knowledge could encourage individuals to take an active role in the education of public opinion, enable individuals to comprehend the positive applications of the new technology, and prevent individuals from abusing it. Daniela Cerqui, an anthropologist, recognized three primary ethical viewpoints that emerged from two days of rigorous discourse after two days of heated argument:

those who aren't concerned about morality or ethics. They do not believe that they have any social or moral responsibilities in the job that they undertake because they see the acts that they do as being purely technical.

Those who are interested in ethical concerns that have a short-term focus.

This individual, according to their profile, questions are expressed in terms of good or bad, and refer to some cultural values.

Take, for example:

They are of the opinion that robots should behave in accordance with societal customs.

This will include respecting and helping humans in diverse areas such as implementing laws or in helping elderly people.

(Considerations of this kind are critical, but we have to remember that the values used to define the bad and the good are relative.

They are the modern ideals of the nations that have industrialized their economies.

Those who focus their considerations on the more distant ethical problems, about, as an illustration, the Digital divide between South and North, or children and senior citizens.

They are conscious of the vast economic divide that exists between industrialized and developing nations.

and question whether the latter shouldn't modify their approach to the development of robots in order to make it more applicable to the former's needs.

They do not pose the question of what for in an unambiguous manner.

However, we may take it for granted that it is understood.

The field of robot ethics has seen several significant events and undertakings recently. RoboHub and the euRobotics ELS discussion group have both recently made announcements about upcoming events related to the field:

In the short tale Runaround, which was published in 1942, Asimov made the first clear statement of his Three Laws. Asimov will include these Laws into future works of science fiction that involve robots at some point.

2004: The First International Symposium on Roboethics is held in Villa Nobel in Sanremo, Italy (30–31 January 2004). This event is hosted by the School of Robotics and is the first time that the term roboethics is used in an official capacity.

2004 is the year when IEEE-RAS officially launches its Technical Committee on Roboethics.

The Fukuoka World Robot Declaration was held in 2004. (25 February 2004, Fukuoka, Japan).

ICRA05, also known as the International Conference on Robotics and Automation, had a Workshop on Roboethics in 2005. This event was organized by the IEEE RAS TC on Roboethics (18 April 2005, Barcelona, Spain).

The E.C. Euron Roboethics Atelier ran from 2005–2006. The Euron Project, which was supervised by the School of Robotics and engaged a significant number of roboticists and humanities researchers, resulted in the production of the first Roadmap for a Roboethics (February/March 2006, Genoa, Italy).

The inaugural IEEE/RAS-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Bio-mechatronics was held in 2006, and it was followed by a Mini Symposium on Roboethics (20 February 2006, Pisa, Italy).

2006: The ETHICBOTS European Project hosted an international workshop titled Ethics of Human Interaction with Robotic, Bionic, and AI Systems: Concepts and Policies. The workshop took place in Naples, Italy, on October 17 and 18, 2006.

The IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Roboethics will be hosting yet another Workshop on Roboethics at the ICRA07 (International Conference on Robotics and Automation) in 2007. (14 April 2007, Rome, Italy).

ICAIL'07, the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law, was held at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, in the United States of America, from June 4-8, 2007.

2007: International European Conference on Computing and Philosophy E-CAP ‘07, track: roboethics (from June 21–23, 2007).

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Computer Ethics Philosophical Enquiry CEPE '07, held at the University of San Diego in California, USA, from July 12th to July 14th, 2007, focused on the theme of Roboethics.

The International Symposium on Robotics and New Science was held in 2008. (on February 20, 2008, in Rome, Italy, at number 10 Via della Lungara).

ICRA09, which stands for the International Conference on Robotics and Automation, will host yet another Workshop on Roboethics in the year 2009. (17 May 2009, Kobe, Japan).

2012: The Year of the Robot 2012 (University of Miami, FL, USA).

2013: Workshop on Robotics and Ethical Considerations (February 2013, University of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England).

2013: We Robot 2013 - Getting to the Heart of the Matter (Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA).

We Robot 2014: A Look at the Dangers and the Opportunities (University of Miami, FL, USA,).

Ethical and Moral Considerations in Non-Human Agents was presented at the Stanford Spring Symposium hosted by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) in 2016 [1]. (Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA).

2017: Future Investment Summit held in Riyadh; a robot with the name Sophia and referred to using female pronouns is awarded Saudi Arabian citizenship, making it the first robot in the history of the world to hold a nationality. (25 October 2017, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

2017 marks the establishment of New York University's AI Now Institution (AI Now), a research institute that focuses on the societal consequences of artificial intelligence (15 November 2017, New York CIty, NY, USA).

In the year 2020, the Non-Human Party will be founded in order to advocate for the rights of robots,