Ethical Issues relating to Ethical Robots: Review and Reflection

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ETHICAL ISSUE RELATED TO ETHICAL ROBOT
Table of Contents
1. Introduction............................................................................................................................2
2. Discussion..............................................................................................................................2
3. Reflection...............................................................................................................................5
4. Conclusion..............................................................................................................................5
References..................................................................................................................................7

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1. Introduction
The ethical robots or robot ethics mainly focuses on several ethical issues that occur.
One of the major examples of this type of ethical robot is that any robot posing a risk to
human being for both the short and long run processes. Moreover there could be some of the
most significant uses of such robots that can turn extremely problematic for the human beings
(Lin, Abney and Bekey 2014). Although, there are several significant benefits of an ethical
robot, important issues associated to ethics are needed to be reflected properly. In this report,
a detailed description after reviewing the famous article of “The Dark Side of Ethical
Robots”, written by Winfield and Vanderelst will be provided. Some of the most relevant and
significant details about ethical robots will also be provided in the first part of report. A
suitable personal reflection regarding the specific statement that robots can eventually
become universal in any work place and society in the next part of this report. Finally, a
relevant conclusion based on reviewing of article as well as personal reflection will be given
in the third section of this following report.
2. Discussion
a) Ethical Problem outlined in Article
As per Vanderelst and Winfield 2018, there are some of the most significant and
important concerns regarding various threats. These threats are then linked with a successive
advancement within artificial intelligence or AI. The main reason for this is to stimulate
several notifications for obtaining effective efforts in beneficial and dynamic artificial
intelligence applications such as machine ethics. The main consequences of such robotic
activities must be analysed properly for identifying the inherent drawbacks of the ethical
robot must be eradicated efficiently (Alaieri and Vellino 2016). This is being analysed that
most of the time any ethical robot is being modified in such a technique that it starts behaving
aggressively. The most significant reason for this specific kind of aggressive and unknown
behaviour is the cognitive behaviour. It is required to make a proper ethical robot that cannot
be degraded in similar manner to make an unethical robot.
An embedment of this kind of ethical decision making procedure in the real world is
properly analysed by Vanderelst and Winfield in their article (Vanderelst and Winfield 2018).
One of the most basic examples of safety critical robots is autonomous cars. A higher growth
as well as development of the autonomous cars is highlighting the fact that this kind of
vehicle may fulfil few of important goals and even can work in situations, in which that
particular car must choose in any one of several undesirable activities. Such kinds of
activities are mainly found in health care as well as military sectors (Scheutz 2017). It is a
high profile issue for several AI based threats that are required to be effectively stimulated for
the robust and advantageous platform, only after involvement of significant controlling,
validation and verification of machine ethics. This type of ethical robot could be termed as
extremely efficient for this particular scenario. Such robots comprise of the major capacity to
evaluate several important consequences of activities and finally morally and ethically
justifying the alternatives (de Graaf 2016). A proper progress is also made also is expected to
expand in the future. Various ethical robots can even ignore their danger of destruction in
spite of it having a proper process.
b) Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Creating Risks for Businesses and
Society
The technology of artificial intelligence is an important advancement in the entire
technological world. Hence, it is associated to both machine learning and deep learning