https://theconversation.com/is-it-ok-to-kick-a-robot-dog-197538
"Last Saturday night, a young woman out on the town in Brisbane saw a
dog-shaped robot trotting towards her and did what many of us might have felt
an urge to do: she gave it a solid kick in the head.
After all, who hasn’t thought about lashing out at “intelligent” technologies
that frustrate us as often as they serve us? Even if one disapproves of the
young woman’s action (or sympathises with Stampy the “bionic quadruped”, a
model also reportedly used by the Russian military), her impulse was
quintessentially human.
As artificial intelligence and robotics are increasingly deployed to spy on and
police us, it may even be a sign of healthy democracy that we’re suspicious of
and occasionally hostile towards robots in our shared spaces.
Nevertheless, many people have the intuition that “violence” towards robots is
wrong. However, as my research has shown, the ethics of kicking a robot dog are
more complicated than might be expected."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
