About this episode
The episode discusses the ethical treatment of robots and how it reflects on human behavior.
Robots are not just machines. We treat them as if they were somewhat like humans, including applying moral standards and expectations to them. Our behavior towards robots matters. The way we treat them reveals much about ourselves. In today’s episode, we will talk about how being nice is not the opposite of being cruel to them. I invited Bob Douglas and Mary Blossom from the AI Research Institute to introduce us to the topic. They agreed to produce a short podcast dialogue to get us started. I then discussed their introduction with Michael-John Turp and Minyi Wang . Transcript The transcript of the episode is available as a PDF. You can also follow the episode with subtitles through Descript . HRI-Podcast-Episode-032-The-One-About-Ethics ISSN 2703-4054 Important Links: Stuff you should know NotebookLM Virtue and vice in our relationships with robots: Is there an asymmetry and how might it be explained?
People in this episode
Host: Christoph Bartneck
Guests: Bob Douglas, Mary Blossom
Topics covered
- ethics
- human-robot interaction
- moral standards
- behavior towards robots
- AI research
Keywords
- robots
- ethics
- moral standards
- human behavior
- AI
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: AI Research Institute
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