Noel Sharkey's Essay 'The Ethical Frontiers Of Robotics'
Ahmad Marrouch
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Did you try before to use your extreme imagination? Where did it lead you in the technological field? If you think that “Man in Black” (1997) movie that uses inhuman people in most of its scenes was just an extreme imagination for Barry Sonnenfeld, then you are wrong. After the technological and industrial development, the term technology has become widely known for most of human beings. While talking about technology, you may feel that we are talking about TVs, laptops, smart phones or any other technological device. But we are actually talking about a wide phenomenon that dominates the world in the last era of the 20st century. This phenomenon was introduced by …show more content…
He assumes that the number of robots has risen from 5.5 to 11.5 million between 2008 and 2011. They are multifunctional and can be used for: “cleaning sewers or windows and performing domestic duties in the home. They harvest fruit, pump gasoline, assist doctors and surgeons, dispose of bombs, and even entertain us.”(Sharkey, N. December 2008). He believes that this use of the service robots causes a lot of ethical problems; they were dangerous caregivers for children and also used in the development of autonomous robot weapons by the military.
The accelerated technological development allowed robots to become mobile and interactive machines. Also it helped researchers in the emerging field of human-robot to implement artificial intelligence techniques for the expression of emotion, language interaction, speech perception, and face recognition. The author also states that robot caregivers are produced in order to take care of children and more specifically play the role of a nurse. Several experimentations have been done and proved that children loved the invention of the robot that took care of them. “Research on child-minding robots has demonstrated close bonding and attachment by children, who, in most cases, prefer a robot to a teddy bear”(Sharkey, N. December
ID#: 12112047
Did you try before to use your extreme imagination? Where did it lead you in the technological field? If you think that “Man in Black” (1997) movie that uses inhuman people in most of its scenes was just an extreme imagination for Barry Sonnenfeld, then you are wrong. After the technological and industrial development, the term technology has become widely known for most of human beings. While talking about technology, you may feel that we are talking about TVs, laptops, smart phones or any other technological device. But we are actually talking about a wide phenomenon that dominates the world in the last era of the 20st century. This phenomenon was introduced by …show more content…
He assumes that the number of robots has risen from 5.5 to 11.5 million between 2008 and 2011. They are multifunctional and can be used for: “cleaning sewers or windows and performing domestic duties in the home. They harvest fruit, pump gasoline, assist doctors and surgeons, dispose of bombs, and even entertain us.”(Sharkey, N. December 2008). He believes that this use of the service robots causes a lot of ethical problems; they were dangerous caregivers for children and also used in the development of autonomous robot weapons by the military.
The accelerated technological development allowed robots to become mobile and interactive machines. Also it helped researchers in the emerging field of human-robot to implement artificial intelligence techniques for the expression of emotion, language interaction, speech perception, and face recognition. The author also states that robot caregivers are produced in order to take care of children and more specifically play the role of a nurse. Several experimentations have been done and proved that children loved the invention of the robot that took care of them. “Research on child-minding robots has demonstrated close bonding and attachment by children, who, in most cases, prefer a robot to a teddy bear”(Sharkey, N. December