Ethical dilemma of robots in soceity

In recent years, robotics has become increasingly applicable in our society due to their usefulness. Initially, robots were automated machines that performed a limited amount of tasks, but over time, their usefulness has increased, as has their complexity. Throughout these years, engineers and scientists have improved robotic capabilities to the point that they are comparable to human abilities in several aspects. The first industrial robot was created in the 1960’s , used by the General motor assembly line for welding parts to auto bodies, according to the International Federation of Robotics . Now, robots have gained increased interest with engineers and even scientists to continue to create and transform to robots to be more complex and similar to humans. From the transformation of robots since the 1960’s to today, it has raised the question whether or not it is ethical for robots to replace humans in society today. This is because more advanced robots are being created throughout the world are created to replace humans in many areas of society such as: the medical, environmental, military, and social fields. It can be seen that the ethical argument of whether robots should replace humans depends on how and what the robot is used for. Therefore, the ethical question whether robots should be replaced by humans is evaluation by three sources that giver their perspective on this issue. This ethical question is found in Alone Together: Why we Expect More From Technology and Less from Each Other, by Sherry Turkle, a book Forces of Production, by David Noble, and a scholarly article “A Survey of Socially Interactive Robots,” by is written by Terrence Fonga, Illah Nourbakhsha, and Kerstin Dautenhahn. These three sources give their pe...

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...match because this topic is very broad and there are so many ways robots can be used. Therefore it is just not a question whether robots should or shouldn’t replace robots but why should we and for what reason.

Works Cited

International Federation of Robotics. “Unimation installed the first industrial robot at GM,” IFR. www.ifr.org/history/

Turkle Sherry. Alone Together: Why expect more from technology, Basic Books, 2011.

David Noble. Forces of Production, Oxford University Press, 1984.

Norm Scott Archives. The Robot Right s Movement”. http://normscott.com/nsdotcomwordpress/?p=248 (assessed November 09th, 2013)

Terrence Fonga, Illah Nourbakhsha, Kerstin Dautenhahn, “A Survey of Socially Interactive Robots,”

Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 42, no. 3-4 (2003): 144 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092188900200372X