As robots slip into more domains of human life-from the operating room to the bedroom-they take on our morally important tasks and decisions, as well as create new risks from psychological to physical. This book answers the urgent call to study their ethical, legal, and policy impacts.

• Preface


• I. Moral and Legal Responsibility


• 1. Autonomous Vehicles and Moral Uncertainty


• Vikram Bhargava and Tae Wan Kim


• 2. Ethics Settings for Autonomous Vehicles


• Jason Millar


• 3. Autonomy and Responsibility in Hybrid Systems: The Example of Autonomous Cars


• Wulf Loh and Janina Sombetzki


• 4. Imputing Driverhood: Applying a Reasonable Driver Standard to Accidents Caused by Autonomous Vehicles


• Jeffery K. Gurney


• 5. Liability Law for Present and Future Robotics Technology


• Trevor N. White and Seth D. Baum


• 6. Skilled Perception, Authenticity, and the Case Against Automation


• David Zoller


• II. Trust and Human-Robot Interactions


• 7. Could a Robot Care? It's All in the Movement


• Darian Meacham and Matthew Studley


• 8. Robot Friends for Autistic Children: Monopoly Money or Counterfeit Currency?


• Alexis Elder


• 9. Pediatric Robotics and Ethics: The Robot Is Ready to See You Now, But Should It Be Trusted?


• Jason Borenstein, Ayanna Howard, and Alan R. Wagner


• 10. Trust and Human-Robot Interactions


• Jesse Kirkpatrick, Erin N. Hahn, and Amy J. Haufler


• 11. White Lies on Silver Tongues: Why Robots Need to Deceive (and How)


• Alistair M. C. Isaac and Will Bridewell


• 12. "Who's Johnny?" Anthropomorphic Framing in Human-Robot Interaction, Integration, and Policy


• Kate Darling


• III. Applications: From Love to War


• 13. Lovotics: Human-Robot Love and Sex Relationships


• Adrian David Cheok, Kasun Karunanayaka, and Emma Yann Zhang


• 14. Church-Turing Lovers


• Piotr Bo¿tu¿


• 15. The Internet of Things and Dual Layers of Ethical Concern


• Adam Henschke


• 16. Challenges to Engineering Moral Reasoners: Time and Context


• Michä Klincewicz


• 17. When Robots Should Do the Wrong Thing


• Brian Talbot, Ryan Jenkins, and Duncan Purves


• 18. Military Robots and the Likelihood of Armed Combat


• Leonard Kahn


• IV. The Future of AI and Robotics


• 19. Testing the Moral Status of Artificial Beings, or "I'm Going to Ask You Some Questions"


• Michael LaBossiere


• 20. Artificial Identity


• James DiGiovanna


• 21. Superintelligence as Superethical


• Steve Petersen


• 22. Artificial Intelligence and the Ethics of Self-Learning Robots


• Shannon Vallor and George Bekey


• 23. Robots and Space Ethics


• Keith Abney


• 24. On the Unabomber and Robots: The Need for a Philosophy of Technology Geared Toward Human Ends


• Jai Galliott


• Biosketches

Patrick Lin, Ph.D., is a philosophy professor and director of the Ethics & Emerging Sciences Group at Cal Poly. He is also affiliated with Stanford Law School, Notre Dame, and World Economic Forum; and previously with Stanford's School of Engineering, the U.S. Naval Academy, and Dartmouth College. On the ethics of emerging technologies, he has provided counsel to the U.S. Department of Defense, the United Nations, Google, Apple, and many other government and industry organizations.
Ryan Jenkins, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of philosophy and a Senior Fellow at the Ethics & Emerging Sciences Group at California Polytechnic State University. He focuses in normative ethics (especially consequentialism) and applied ethics, including military ethics and emerging technologies such as driverless cars, robots, and autonomous weapons.
Keith Abney, A.B.D., is senior lecturer in the Philosophy Department and a Senior Fellow at the Ethics & Emerging Sciences Group at California Polytechnic State University, with research that includes work on demarcating science from non-science, moral status and sustainability, astronaut and space bioethics, patenting life, human enhancement, just war theory and the use of autonomous weapons, robot ethics, and other aspects of the ethical implications of emerging sciences and technologies.