Who Can Lie to a Robot? Roboethics and Categorical Imperative
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https://doi.org/10.37467/gka-revtechno.v3.1176Keywords:
Roboethics, Deception, Artificial Intelligence, Objective Intelligence, Formal Ethics, Cathegorical Imperative, EmpathyAbstract
This paper analyzes the impact of our new technological system in the evolution and structure of our ethical argumentation.Considering the possibility of the deception in the relationship human-robot, the paper discusses some of the implications of the ethical doctrines of Kant and Scheler in a situation of human-robot communication. After a historical analysis of the relationship between technology and ethical argumentation the paper proposes an interpretation of the moral argument exposed by Kant in his essay “On a Supposed Right to Lie Because of Philanthropic Concerns”, published in 1979, in the context of the interaction human being-robot. The final section offers some suggestions on general roboethics.
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