On the robot as a moral agent

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

doi:10.1145/3233824.3233832

On the robot as a moral agent

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

Department of Philosophy

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Abstract

To be a moral agent is to bear its own responsibility which others cannot take for it. We hold that such irreplaceability consists in its having an inner world to which others cannot have direct access. The purpose of this paper is to propose, as a means of gaining support for our thesis, an experiment - a psychological one in which to assess to what degree we can attribute moral responsibility to a robot. Furthermore, we explore the possibility of a society where humans and robots coexist.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Interaccion 2018
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450364911
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3233824.3233832
Publication status	Published - 2018 Sept 12
Event	19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Interaccion 2018 - Palma, Spain Duration: 2018 Sept 12 → 2018 Sept 14

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Name	ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

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Other	19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Interaccion 2018
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Palma
Period	18/9/12 → 18/9/14

Keywords

Human-robot coexistence
Moral agent
Personality

ASJC Scopus subject areas

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

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Nagataki, S., Shibata, M., Hashimoto, T., Kashiwabata, T., Konno, T., Ohira, H., Miura, T., & Kubota, S. (2018). On the robot as a moral agent. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Interaccion 2018 [24] (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3233824.3233832

On the robot as a moral agent. / Nagataki, Shoji; Shibata, Masayoshi; Hashimoto, Takashi et al.

Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Interaccion 2018. Association for Computing Machinery, 2018. 24 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

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

Nagataki, S, Shibata, M, Hashimoto, T, Kashiwabata, T, Konno, T, Ohira, H, Miura, T & Kubota, S 2018, On the robot as a moral agent. in Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Interaccion 2018., 24, ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, Association for Computing Machinery, 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Interaccion 2018, Palma, Spain, 18/9/12. https://doi.org/10.1145/3233824.3233832

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