Anticipating Ethics

Author

O´Connell, Brian M.

Author_Institution

Departments of Comput. Sci. & Philos., Central Connecticut State Univ., New Britain, CT

fYear

2006

fDate

8-11 May 2006

Firstpage

48

Lastpage

52

Abstract

Legal and ethical decisions regarding developing technologies are frequently based upon understandings derived from explanations provided by "experts" within developing fields as well as upon tacit public perceptions. This paper focuses upon the emerging fields of robotics and neuroethics to examine the reliability of these primary sources. Included in this assessment is a consideration of internal, disciplinary narratives, the place of metaphor within expert discourse, the role of public expectations in new technologies with current factual possibilities and the state of coordination among technical and policy-oriented disciplines in establishing useful and robust public accounts and ethical-legal standards for new technologies

Keywords

ethical aspects; robots; social aspects of automation; technology management; ethical decisions; ethical-legal standards; ethics; legal decisions; neuroethics; public expectations; reliability; robotics; tacit public perceptions; Artificial intelligence; Ethics; Facial animation; Helium; Humans; Intelligent robots; Law; Legal factors; Robot kinematics; Robustness;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics and the Environment, 2006. Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Scottsdale, AZ

ISSN

1095-2020

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0351-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISEE.2006.1650031

Filename

1650031