02.04.2024
The Role of Ethics in Shaping Robotics Development
New blog article by Sebastian Gießler and Aline Franzke
This article discusses how ethics can be integrated into the development of autonomous robotics. Firstly, a potential mediating role between philosophical ethics and engineering is outlined. Secondly, the capability of ethics of robotics in making implicit values in the development of the technology is explicitly discussed. Thirdly, it is demonstrated how this reflection can contribute to making issues of responsibility visible, and how this can benefit the engineering sciences. Finally, it is pointed out that ethical reasoning and concepts often precede and inform legal regulation.