Oklahoma City University professors consider ethics of using robots for eldercare
Anderson and her husband, Mike Anderson , a computer science professor at the University of Hartford in Connecticut , attended the California workshop. They are the editors of a recent book called “Machine Ethics” and have endeavored to program a robot to behave ethically.
The couple work with an Aldebaran Nao, a mass-production humanoid robot that stands more than 2 feet tall and costs about as much as a new economy car. Working with an ethicist, the Andersons developed software that generalizes appropriate responses from a pool of specific cases, effectively giving their robot the ability to make decisions based on experience.
“From an artificial intelligence standpoint,” Mike Anderson said, “it's using machine learning techniques that permit you to get to this generalized principle.”
The Anderson's robot is programmed to remind patients when to take pills. It's a straightforward task until a patient refuses to listen.
That scenario presents an ethical dilemma for the robot. Humans have free will; they can decide whether they want their medicine or not. But if they continue to refuse medications, their lives could be endangered.
“The robot is able, in this case, to weigh those factors and decide when to alert a physician or the human nurse charged with this person's care,” Metzler said. “This is the kind of thing that weighs patient autonomy against the welfare of the patient, the kinds of things that are in the domain of moral reasoning.”
Metzler is no Luddite. He has worked on artificial intelligence applications for the Army, Navy and Border Patrol and has been a member of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence for 20 years.
Even so, he and Barnes worry that interacting with robots could prove dehumanizing, changing how we view ourselves and our obligations to society.
“The technology has to serve human purposes,” Metzler said, “not the other way around.
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