Robots between the devil and the deep blue sea

entre o diabo e o profundo mar azul

Authors

  • Oliver Bendel FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland School of Business. Switzerland.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18617/liinc.v11i2.828

Keywords:

Dilemmas, Robotics, Service Robots, Self-driving Cars, Chatbots, Machine Ethics.

Abstract

This article presents classic dilemmas and transfers them to the information age with special focus on the problem-ridden use of chatbots, robots, drones and self-driving cars. Solution concepts are developed from the perspective of machine ethics among others. It turns out that classic dilemmas are useful for mastering today’s challenges and helpful for discussing the decision-making options of partly or fully autonomous systems and for sensitizing robotics, artificial intelligence and information science to such matters in order to optimize their results and products.

 

Author Biography

  • Oliver Bendel, FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland School of Business. Switzerland.
    Oliver Bendel was born in 1968 in Ulm on the River Danube. After completing his degree in philosophy and German philology (M.A.) as well as in information science (diploma in information science) at the University of Constance, and after his first professional experiences he did his doctorate in information systems at the University of St. Gallen (Dr. oec.). Bendel has been working in Germany and in Switzerland as a project manager for new media and as a supervisor of the engineering and science departments of several universities. Today he lives in Switzerland working as a freelance writer and as professor at the School of Business (University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland).

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Published

30/11/2015

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 2 (2015): Ethical and Epistemological Dilemmas of Information Age

Section

Ethical and Epistemological Dilemmas of Information Age

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