How to recycle Asimov’s laws in roboethics: An intermediate suggestion

초록

Bringsjord et al.(2004) maintain that robots cannot be genuinely autonomous agents. Even if they were right, robots can have a certain degree of autonomy on the phenomenological level. Roboethics should discuss the basic principles for employing and regulating this phenomenological autonomy of roboticised mind. Asimov’s Three Laws can provide a reasonable starting point for roboethics, but they should be reformulated in correct narrative perspective in which not robots but human agents such as designer, manufacturer, administrator, and user of robotic systems appear as acting subject in the law sentences, in order to be the principles of reality-relevant roboethics.