Learning Objective

• Examine human rights in order to

uphold such rights in
technological ethical dilemmas.
HUMAN AND ROBOT
What is Robot?

A robot is an “autonomous machine

capable of sensing its environment,
carrying out computations to make
decisions, and performing actions in the
real world”.
The ethical dilemmas of
Robotics
by Dylan Evans
 Most important concern:
SAFETY
⚫ Specialist applications in industry
and the military, where users
received extensive training on their
use, but they are increasingly being
used by ordinary people.
Who is responsible if they injure
someone. Is the designer to
blame, or the user, or the robot
itself?
Three laws of robotics by Isaac
Asimov (1940)
1. A robot may not injure a human
being, or, through inaction, allow a
human being to come to harm
2. A robot must obey the orders given it
by human beings except where such
orders would conflict with the First Law

3. A robot must protect its own existence

as long as such protection does not
conflict with the First or Second Law
EMOTIONAL COMPONENT
• If robots became sentient.

◼ If robots can feel pain, should they be granted certain

rights?
◼ If robots develop emotions, as some experts think
they will, should they be allowed to marry humans?
◼ Should they be allowed to own property?
EMOTIONAL COMPONENT
• Ability to recognise human expressions of
emotion.

• To engage in behaviour that humans readily

perceive as emotional.

• Humanoid heads with expressive features have

become alarmingly lifelike.
HUMAN PROPERTY AND RIGHTS
◼ Jaron Lanier, an internet pioneer, has warned
of the dangers such technology poses to our
sense of our own humanity.

◼ If we see machines as increasingly human-

like, will we come to see ourselves as more
machine-like?
MILITARY ASPECT
◼ If we grant rights to more and more entities
besides ourselves, will we dilute our sense of
our own specialness?
HUMAN, TECHNOLOGY
AND INTERNET
 MOBILE PHONES, TELEVISION SET AND
COMPUTER

These devices are used as platforms for:

•Advertisements
• Propaganda
• Advocacies
• Entertainment
Is Google making us stupid?
by Nicolas Carr
WHAT IS INTERNET DOING TO OUR
BRAINS?

◼ "....as we come to rely on computers to

mediate our understanding of the world, it is
our own intelligence that flattens into
artificial intelligence." (Carr, The Atlantic)
Content References:
✓ Evans, D. (2007, March 9). The ethical dilemmas of robotics. BBC
News. Retrieved from
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6432307.stm
✓ Carr, N. (2008, July). Is Google Making Us Stupid?: What the internet is
doing to our brains. The Atlantic Retrieved from
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-
making-us-stupid/306868/
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