Can morality be ascribed to robot?

Shoji Nagataki; Hideki Ohira; Tatsuya Kashiwabata; Takeshi Konno; Takashi Hashimoto; Toshihiko Miura; Masayoshi Shibata; Shin'Ichi Kubota

doi:10.1145/3335595.3335643

Can morality be ascribed to robot?

Shoji Nagataki, Hideki Ohira, Tatsuya Kashiwabata, Takeshi Konno, Takashi Hashimoto, Toshihiko Miura, Masayoshi Shibata, Shin'Ichi Kubota

Department of Philosophy

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to clarify part of the ethical basis necessary for a machine like a humanoid robot to be a member of a human society. In order to do so, we formulate three conditions for moral agency on which membership is based: cognitive-behavioral, ontological, and normative. For the purpose of showing the relevance of these conditions, we conducted an experiment which involved human-robot interactions and moral judgement tasks. This conceptual exploration and empirical research suggests that bodily coordination can generate the demand for a certain moral commitment on the part of artificial beings.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, INTERACCION 2019
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450371766
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3335595.3335643
Publication status	Published - 2019 Jun 25
Event	22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, INTERACCION 2019 - Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain Duration: 2019 Jun 25 → 2019 Jun 28

Publication series

Name	ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Conference

Conference	22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, INTERACCION 2019
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Donostia-San Sebastian
Period	19/6/25 → 19/6/28

Keywords

Bodily coordination
Human-robot coexistence
Moral agent
Moral commitment

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computer Networks and Communications

Access to Document

10.1145/3335595.3335643

Cite this

Nagataki, S., Ohira, H., Kashiwabata, T., Konno, T., Hashimoto, T., Miura, T., Shibata, M., & Kubota, SI. (2019). Can morality be ascribed to robot? In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, INTERACCION 2019 [44] (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3335595.3335643

Can morality be ascribed to robot? / Nagataki, Shoji; Ohira, Hideki; Kashiwabata, Tatsuya et al.

Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, INTERACCION 2019. Association for Computing Machinery, 2019. 44 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Nagataki, S, Ohira, H, Kashiwabata, T, Konno, T, Hashimoto, T, Miura, T, Shibata, M & Kubota, SI 2019, Can morality be ascribed to robot? in Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, INTERACCION 2019., 44, ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, Association for Computing Machinery, 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, INTERACCION 2019, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain, 19/6/25. https://doi.org/10.1145/3335595.3335643

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