TY - JOUR
T1 - Robot lies in health care : when is deception morally permissible?
AU - MATTHIAS, Andreas
PY - 2015/6/1
Y1 - 2015/6/1
N2 - Autonomous robots are increasingly interacting with users who have limited knowledge of robotics and are likely to have an erroneous mental model of the robot’s workings, capabilities, and internal structure. The robot’s real capabilities may diverge from this mental model to the extent that one might accuse the robot’s manufacturer of deceiving the user, especially in cases where the user naturally tends to ascribe exaggerated capabilities to the machine (e.g. conversational systems in elder-care contexts, or toy robots in child care). This poses the question, whether misleading or even actively deceiving the user of an autonomous artifact about the capabilities of the machine is morally bad and why. By analyzing trust, autonomy, and the erosion of trust in communicative acts as consequences of deceptive robot behavior, we formulate four criteria that must be fulfilled in order for robot deception to be morally permissible, and in some cases even morally indicated.
AB - Autonomous robots are increasingly interacting with users who have limited knowledge of robotics and are likely to have an erroneous mental model of the robot’s workings, capabilities, and internal structure. The robot’s real capabilities may diverge from this mental model to the extent that one might accuse the robot’s manufacturer of deceiving the user, especially in cases where the user naturally tends to ascribe exaggerated capabilities to the machine (e.g. conversational systems in elder-care contexts, or toy robots in child care). This poses the question, whether misleading or even actively deceiving the user of an autonomous artifact about the capabilities of the machine is morally bad and why. By analyzing trust, autonomy, and the erosion of trust in communicative acts as consequences of deceptive robot behavior, we formulate four criteria that must be fulfilled in order for robot deception to be morally permissible, and in some cases even morally indicated.
UR - http://commons.ln.edu.hk/sw_master/4398
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84934757974&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1353/ken.2015.0007
DO - 10.1353/ken.2015.0007
M3 - Journal Article (refereed)
C2 - 26144538
SN - 1054-6863
VL - 25
SP - 169
EP - 192
JO - Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal
JF - Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal
IS - 2
ER -