Public Lecture Series on Robotics in Society

2016 Lecture - The Ethical Roboticist

Professor Alan Winfield, University of West of England

http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~a-winfield/

Like any transformative technology, intelligent robotics has the potential for huge benefit, but is not without ethical or societal risk. In this lecture I will explore two questions:-

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Firstly, the increasingly urgent question of the ethical use of robots: are there particular applications of robots that should be proscribed, in eldercare, or surveillance, or war fighting for example? When intelligent autonomous robots make mistakes – as they inevitably will, who should be held to account?

Secondly, I will consider the longer-term question of whether intelligent robots themselves could or should be ethical. Seventy years ago Isaac Asimov created his fictional Three Laws of Robotics. Is there now a realistic prospect that we could build a robot that is Three Laws Safe?

Come and join us. The event is free but registration is essential.

When: Monday, 27th June 2016, 4.30pm-7.00pm

Where: Victoria Gallery & Museum, Ashton Street, Liverpool L69 3DR

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