[Air-L] CfA Workshop “Social Robotics and the Good Life"

[William Fearon]

   Wulf,

   I constructed an analog set of robotic laws years ago.  Had you not
   heard? They went digital!


   Dr Fearon


   Sent: Friday, December 06, 2019 at 5:34 PM
   From: "Wulf Loh" <wulf.loh at izew.uni-tuebingen.de>
   To: "William Fearon" <william.fearon at mail.com>
   Subject: Re: [Air-L] CfA Workshop “Social Robotics and the Good Life"

   Dear William Fearon,

   but which laws? Hopefully not these ones:

   A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a
   human being to come to harm.

   A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such
   orders would conflict with the First Law.

   A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does
   not conflict with the First or Second Laws.

   Best regards

   Wulf Loh
PostDoc Researcher
BmBF Projekte NIKA/INTEGRAM

IZEW - Internationales Zentrum für Ethik in den Wissenschaften
Universität Tübingen
Wilhelmstr. 19
72074 Tübingen

   Am 06.12.2019 um 16:50 schrieb William Fearon:



   I Robot!


   'Laws, laws and more laws'.


   Regards


   Dr William (F.W.) Fearon
   Sent: Friday, December 06, 2019 at 1:22 PM
   From: "Wulf Loh" [1]<wulf.loh at izew.uni-tuebingen.de>
   To: [2]air-l at listserv.aoir.org
   Subject: [Air-L] CfA Workshop “Social Robotics and the Good Life"
   Call for Abstracts: Workshop “Social Robotics and the Good Life – The
   Normative Side of Forming Emotional Bonds with Robots”
   Organizers: International Center for Ethics in the Sciences and
   Humanities, University of Tübingen (Regina Ammicht Quinn and Wulf Loh,
   both Tübingen, in cooperation with Janina Loh, Vienna, and Charles Ess,
   Oslo)
   Date: May 7-8, 2020
   Venue:IZEW Tübingen, Germany
   Social robotics has the strong potential of becoming more and more
   prevalent in the coming years, especially in the realms of elder day
   care, child rearing, and education. As human beings have the
   fascinating
   ability to emotionally bond not exclusively with other human beings,
   but
   also with animals, plants, and objects, it is highly likely that
   human-machine-relationships will arise from these
   human-robotic-interactions. While children and the elderly constitute
   vulnerable groups that merit special consideration, at the heart of the
   issue lie fundamental ethical questions that concern
   human-robot-interactions /per se/. Do human-robot-relationships
   necessarily constitute a form of manipulation, since any form of
   reciprocity on the side of the robot is merely simulated? Are these
   relationships then /per se/ detrimental to the good life, as they
   replace “real” relationships? What constitutes such a “real”
   relationship? Are more intimate relationships with robots, such as
   friendship or even love, possible and ethically sound? Which design
   cues
   does an ethical design of robots have to take into account? And: how do
   we conceive and ground “good lives” as more and more of the virtues and
   interactions – starting with those of friendship – of good lives will
   be
   increasingly interwoven with social robots?
   For discussing these and further questions regarding the normativity of
   emotional bonds with robots, in this interdisciplinary workshop we
   invite submissions with a focus on (but not restricted to) topics such
   as
   ofriendship
   olove
   osex
   ocare
   otrust
   oobjectophilia or object sexuality
   ofeminist perspectives on relationships
   ofamily, children, and nurture
   odisappointment, anger, and hate
   omorally appropriate behavior
   with regard to robots.
   The workshop will take place on the 7^th and 8^th of May 2020 at the
   International Centre for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities (IZEW)
   at
   the University of Tübingen. *Prof. Dr. Charles Ess*, Department of
   Media
   and Communication, University of Oslo, will be a fellow at the Center
   of
   Ethics at that time. He will give a keynote lecture and will be our
   dialogue partner throughout the workshop.
   Please submit abstracts of around 500 words to
   [3]Wulf.loh at izew.uni-tuebingen.de
   [4]<mailto:Wulf.loh at izew.uni-tuebingen.de>by
   January 31, 2020. Acceptance notifications will be sent out by the end
   of February 2020. An English-language edited volume is planned with the
   publisher /transcript/. Those, who are invited to present their project
   during the workshop should be prepared to send their completed paper of
   about 6.000-8.000 words to [5]Janina.loh at univie.ac.at
   [6]<mailto:Janina.loh at univie.ac.at>by August 31, 2020.
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