Roboter und moralische Verantwortung

Responsibility and Robot Ethics: A Critical Overview

“…In a responsible collective there are mechanisms of delegating, sharing and dividing responsibility to be identified, which ascribe partial, full, or no responsibility to the members of the collective. In Section 5.2 I will introduce the term "responsibility network" [30] to focus on the different functions and roles that the involved parties within man-robot interaction have.…”

“…Depending on the underlying understanding of agency, morality and the competences that are necessary for its realization, this field of robot ethics focuses, for instance, on the attribution of freedom and autonomy as a condition for moral agency, on cognitive competences (e.g., thinking, mind, reason, judgement, intelligence, consciousness, perception, and communication), but also on empathy and emotions [55,76,79,91] [87] (pp. [30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42]. It should be noted, however, that the robots that exist so far are candidates for the attribution of moral patiency and not of moral agency.…”

“…However, it is not a moral agent in a significant (that is, at least functional) way. For contexts such as these I'd like to adopt Christian Neuhäuser's concept of responsibility networks [30] and elaborate on it [13]. The first assumption of this approach is that the involved parties are to be held responsible to the extent that they possess the necessary prerequisites for responsibility.…”

“…The behavior of a robot (e) is, or at least appears to be autonomous and it can (f) influence its environment [71] (p. 48) [82] (pp. [28][29][30][31] [86] (pp. [41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59] [87,88].…”