Robotic Nudges: The Ethics of Engineering a More Socially Just Human Being

作者：Borenstein Jason^*; Arkin Ron

来源：Science and Engineering Ethics, 2016, 22(1): 31-46.

DOI：10.1007/s11948-015-9636-2

• Autonomy
• Design ethics
• Nudges
• Paternalism
• Robot ethics
• Robot companions
• Rawls
• Social justice

Robots are becoming an increasingly pervasive feature of our personal lives. As a result, there is growing importance placed on examining what constitutes appropriate behavior when they interact with human beings. In this paper, we discuss whether companion robots should be permitted to "nudge" their human users in the direction of being "more ethical". More specifically, we use Rawlsian principles of justice to illustrate how robots might nurture "socially just" tendencies in their human counterparts. Designing technological artifacts in such a way to influence human behavior is already well-established but merely because the practice is commonplace does not necessarily resolve the ethical issues associated with its implementation.

• 出版日期2016-2