Robotic use worldwide, ethical or not ethical?
“"In any kind of technology there are risks," these are words of Ron Brachman. Robotic use has
become increasingly popular worldwide; they have been placed to task in numerous areas of labour,
most of which have been granted the ability to replace human involvement in labouring industries
throughout the world. With reference to Oxford University researchers who found that a whopping
47% of the labour market in the US alone is at risk of being mechanized out of existence. Seemingly,
we confront the concern of robots moving out of the territory of science fiction and into the real
world as we find that robots are becoming more independent, as these computer-controlled
machines are being allowed to face ethical decisions like those of human thoughts. It is through
societies moral judgment that the question ‘is robotic use worldwide ethical or unethical?’ is
presented. Good morning my name is Vushain Makumborenga and my presentation today is based
on concern of robotics at a global scale
The 3 D’s
With guidance from Patrick lirDu studies we find that robots are often tasked with jobs that are ‘dull,
dirty, or dangerous.’ The understanding is that robots are created to foresee human needs and
desires; they stand as an alternative when humans do not wish to execute things by or for
themselves, they are to go places where humans do not wish to go. For example, in motor
industries, robots execute the odd jobs that were once achieved through the ford assembly; they
execute the same rhythmic car line assemblies, over and over again, with accuracy and without
complaint. These being advantages that are less enjoyed in LEDC countries where funds cannot
reach the demands of these robotic machines, thus ford assemblies are still thoroughly practice in
countries like Ethiopia. Robots are also used in labour fields where they are to muvour through
sewers, inspecting the given digamous, as well as do the dirty exhausting work in our homes, such as
washing our clothes through the use of washing machines . Not scared of danger, they also survey in
and out of volcanoes and contaminated area, here being the more popular service being defusing
bombs and mediating hostage crises. It is seemingly evident that we are facing a predictable future
filled with humanoids, androids, replicates and other part-machine, part-human, hybrids.
Would you hand over a moral decision to a machine?
"We're not stumbling down some blind alley," Ron Brachman says. "We're very cognizant of these
issues."
When a robotic machine makes a decision it can only do a certain amount of work, based on how
the machine is programmed and so it won’t be able to process information that’s outside its main
focus. These robotic machines are made with a certain purpose and very rarely will they have a
generalized skill set. At the same time these machines can also process information that isn’t directly
related to their programming.
Human machines on the other hand can process data in a rational manner as opposed to robotic
ones. As with human machines thoughts can be compared and an estimate can be made with a pros
and cons type of manner these kind of machines are also inconsistent and will not do the exact same
thing all the time but robots can be programmed to perform the exact same thing in the exact same
Robotic use worldwide, ethical or not ethical?
way each time they are required to. And through societies judgment we seem to be prepared to
accept these flaws in robotic ethic decision making.
But we do find that with the use of these machines scenarios may differ sufficiently to make it
difficult to tell if the new scenario matches the old one. Both these issues are contributing to the
debate over action in Syria, post-Iraq incidents. Other examples being In October 2007, “a semiautonomous robotic cannon deployed by the South African army malfunctioned, killing nine
“friendly” soldiers and wounding 14 others”
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When a machine is “wrong”, it can be wide of the mark in a greater more theatrical way, with more
unpredictable outcomes, than any human could achieve. “Non-Human machines will go on making
the same mistakes until reprogrammed.” But once reprogrammed it is believed that they can stop
making the same old mistakes. But as yet these machines cannot really take our leaps of principle
into story tale scenarios.
The only thing stopping a human machine from any aim on total destruction is its capacity to
execute this notion by its own will. The same applies to a machine mistakenly programmed to
perform total destruction (i.e. going off beam). One underlying problem is that human affairs,
together with making moral decisions, are complex. There is no end to the information one can
absorb that would make one change a decision to act or not act at all. Evidently, every scenario has
some small or large differences. Humans can be much better than non-human machines and much
worse at the same time.
Ron Murphy says: “Even if we are outperformed 99.99% of the time, the unpredictability of the 0.01%
failures may be a good reason to consider carefully what and how we morally outsource to the
machine.” There’s the dissimilar possibility of humans and machines linking up and becoming one.
Based on the past one should already be excluding humans from making ethical decisions.
We my come to the conclusion that One cannot make a claim that robot machines and humans are
better than the other in any way, but presented there are disadvantages and advantages of using
one or the other in every situation.
Ethical Considerations
One part in which concerns are being bought up for the wrong reasons is military robotics. The
degree of independence with which nameless aircraft and ground robots are able of carrying out
selfless actions is progressively escalating. While there have been well-built arguments raised in
opposition to robotic systems being able to use deadly force against human combatants
unconnectedly, it is becoming increasingly clear that in many circumstances in the near future the
“no human in the loop” robotic system will have reward over the human loop system. It is seen that
mechanical systems examine information better and faster, and evidently are only slowed down by
human input. Human input is normally in the form of decision making and outcome inputs but these
are by no means reliable, and will not always be superior to the machines.
In June’s Centre for a New American Society (CNAS) conference, Rosa Brooks put it in this way: “Our
record- we’re horrible at it [making “who should live and who should die” decisions] … it seems to me that it
Robotic use worldwide, ethical or not ethical?
could very easily turn out to be the case that computers are much better than we are doing. And the real
ethical question would be can us ethically and lawfully not let the autonomous machines do that when
they’re going to do it better than we will.”
With that being said, we can further see the use of robotics as a helping mechanism for doctors and
be able to diagnose medical history, and come up with a solution as we see this escalating example
today in Japan where Medical robots, such as da Vinci Surgical System and ARES ingestible robots,
are assisting with or conducting difficult medical procedures on their own.
When A Robot Comes Knocking at my Door...
It is not that humanoids will take over the world or the fear of them being superior to the human
race that is the real danger, the danger is much more subtle. Inevitably, we are allegedly living in a
world with no boundaries, it seems we are growing further apart from the ideals of human
interactions and ethics, and Humanoids are accelerating this trend.
"there are many, many incredibly smart people working in the field of artificial intelligence," Remine
says, "there is still no clear path to true created sentience, as many researchers define it. If AI does
arise, it may be the result of careful and detailed work by extremely accomplished scientists, or it
may be a completely random occurrence in the chaotic and messy real world which spontaneously
gives rise to machine sentience."
I see robots to be more simply and broadly as human replacements. They are More than mere tools
with the capability of performing indepented actions. And as robots become smarter and more
common, these independent machines are bound to end up making life-or-death decisions in erratic
situations, thus concluding that moral agency should be taken into consideration when dealing with
these part man-part machine figures. Currently, arsenal systems have human operators behind
them, but as they grow more primitive, it will be likely that they will be a shift of operations with
machines carrying out orders freely.