Paper Info
Title
Robots As Animals: A Framework For Liability And Responsibility In Human-Robot Interactions
Abstract
As robots become more common across society, there is a pressing need to deal with questions of moral responsibility and legal liability in accidents involving semi-autonomous and autonomous machines. Previous attempts to address these questions have assumed machines with either minimal autonomy or full intelligence, and thus have not adequately considered the current and likely future state of the art in robotics and artificial intelligence. In this paper, we offer general principles to make sense of the foregoing issues, and propose a framework for addressing questions of responsibility and liability in human-robot interaction. This approach is based on the premise that robots can be analogized to animals for the purpose of assigning responsibility and liability when robots are involved in accidents. We provide justification for this approach, consider its implications, and discuss several of its advantages in analyzing human-robot interactions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/ROMAN.2009.5326244
RO-MAN 2009: THE 18TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ROBOT AND HUMAN INTERACTIVE COMMUNICATION, VOLS 1 AND 2
Keywords
Field
DocType
human robot interaction,moral responsibility,law,legal liability,human factors,data mining,roboethics,artificial intelligent,ethics,pediatrics,artificial intelligence,robots
Simulation,Computer science,Autonomy,Liability,Premise,Risk analysis (engineering),Roboethics,Artificial intelligence,Robot,Human–robot interaction,Moral responsibility,Legal liability
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.81
3
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Enrique Schaerer161.24
richard kelley213710.00
Monica N. Nicolescu335840.44