Mind and Machine. The New Spaces of Robots and Digitization

• Authors: Bruce Janz , André Schmiljun
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Machines have always been a tool or technical instrument for human beings to facilitate and to accelerate processes through mechanical power. The same applies to robots nowadays – the next step in the evolution of machines. Over the course of the last few years, robot usage in society has expanded enormously, and they now carry out a remarkable number of tasks for us. It seems we are on the eve of a historic revolution that will change everything we know right now. But not only robots have an impact on our life. It is digitization in its entirety, including smart applications and games, that confronts us with new spaces. This special volume of Ethics in Progress tries to broaden our understanding of a philosophical field – robots and digitization – that is still in its infancy in terms of it research and literature.

Keywords

EN

robots; robot ethics; machine ethics; moral competence; robot morality; artificial morality; moral implementation; care robots; social robots; anthropomorphism; uncanny valley; digitization; digital games; smart applications; people with disabilities; mic

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Ethics in Progress
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 4-7

Dates

published

2019-10-10

Contributors

author

Bruce Janz

• University of Central Florida, Orlando

• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3122-1618

author

André Schmiljun

• Humboldt-University of Berlin – Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznań

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9415-8495

References

• Bostrom N. 2014. Superintelligence. Paths, Dangers, Strategies. Oxford: University Press.
• Musiał M. 2018. Enchanting Robots. Intimacy, Magic, and Technology. Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan – Springer.

Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/eip.2019.2.1