Ethics, Human Rights, the Intelligent Robot, and its Subsystem for Moral Beliefs

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Title: Ethics, Human Rights, the Intelligent Robot, and its Subsystem for Moral Beliefs
Authors: Sandewall, Erik
Source: International Journal of Social Robotics. 13(4):557-567
Subject Terms: Robot ethics, Moral belief state, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Immanuel Kant, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Description: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights specifies a number of properties that characterize human beings, such as dignity, conscience, and several others. In this article we focus on these properties and on how they have been defined in the history of philosophy. We show how they can be interpreted in terms of a prototypical architecture for an intelligent robot, and how the robot can be provided with several aspects of ethical capability in this way. The key idea is to provide the robot with a Moral Belief System that cooperates with, and moderates the robots capability of planning and action.
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Abstract:The Universal Declaration of Human Rights specifies a number of properties that characterize human beings, such as dignity, conscience, and several others. In this article we focus on these properties and on how they have been defined in the history of philosophy. We show how they can be interpreted in terms of a prototypical architecture for an intelligent robot, and how the robot can be provided with several aspects of ethical capability in this way. The key idea is to provide the robot with a Moral Belief System that cooperates with, and moderates the robots capability of planning and action.
ISSN:18754791
18754805
DOI:10.1007/s12369-019-00540-z