Ethics in Robotics

Ethics in AI and Robotics:

Robotics: robotics is an extremely wide domain and one of the common words in this domain is “Robots”, so to define this term we can say that it is a spectacular machine that is capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically for the aim of assisting the human in his daily activities in general. Even though this kind of technology helped the humans in many aspects of their lives and provided a lot of gadgets that facilitated many roles that were difficult for humans to take or some hard and tiring work. An example of these gadgets are phones, calculators, microwaves, printers, and computers, and now scientists are developing a new generation of robots that sometimes might seem a bit scary and confusing as they can be used for malicious purposes by certain Groups of people from our society to feed their personnel selfish and naïve interest (TechTarget, 2022). 

One of their purposes might be gaining more many than the usual which is the main purpose in most of the cases of fraud that takes the path of the unethical setarious in the domain of AI in robotics. For instance, some of the unethical risks that might be considered as a threat in the future:

v  Privacy and Security: in a nutshell Data and information are an integral part of Artificial Intelligence and robotics, so manipulating the data may create a danger to the people or the businesses in some companies that are using this technology (Unicef.org, 2022).

v  Transparency and opacity: this means that how are the data collected from different individuals and resources being handled and used, this might develop some kind of an untrust relationship between the user and the device, for that reason the devices must contain algorithmic accountability, transparency, and the community participation. In order to have a trustworthy device and keep the privacy of the users (Dallas, Forbes.net, 2022).

v  The last point is Biases, algorithms may be affected by bias in a variety of ways, one of them being the use of incorrect data or information units that are irrelevant to the problem (Miguel González-Fierro, 2022).

Alongside these unethical issues that are considered as an obstacle to build a trust between the users and the technological companies, there are some regulations or in other words, a framework that all the companies should respect and take into consideration. This framework contains four components which are Trust, Transparency, Fairness, and Privacy for all of the users that are using the technological gadgets provided by the companies such as phones, cameras, computers, Drones, and many other gadgets (Dallas, Forbes.net, 2022).

There are several unethical actions happened already in the domain of AI and Robotics and also there are some concerns about what will happen in the next years or in the far future, while we are witnessing the huge progress in this field along with the different organizations and companies. For instance, when the face recognition was invented in the first place some dark-skin user experienced some difficulties using this technology rather than the light-skin users found it extremely effective, the reason for this problem is that the algorithm that was used in the first place have some difficulties in detecting the facial features of the dark-skin people. So here some individuals might take this situation as a racist attitude and put the blame on the company (Miguel González-Fierro, 2022). A further example of the unethical action in AI and Robotics, according to the multiple new stations around the world when the Cambridge Analytica incident, in which 87 million Facebook accounts were taken and exploited to influence the US election and the Brexit campaign. At this point, the different users of these devices that were developed with the AI and Robotics technology fear danger to their data privacy and even might be a threat to themselves (Miguel González-Fierro, 2022).   

References

Dallas, K., 2022. Wind River Brand Voice: AI, Robotics And Ethics: Harnessing The Power Of Intelligent Machines To Benefit Humans. [online] Forbes. Available at: <https://www.forbes.com/sites/windriver/2022/03/01/ai-robotics-and-ethics-harnessing-the-power-of-intelligent-machines-to-benefit-humans/?sh=683c743476be> [Accessed 6 May 2022].

Miguel González-Fierro, 2022. 10 Ethical Issues of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. [online] Miguelgfierro.com. Available at: <https://miguelgfierro.com/blog/2018/10-ethical-issues-of-artificial-intelligence-and-robotics/> [Accessed 6 May 2022].

TechTarget, 2022. What is robotics? [online] WhatIs.com. Available at: <https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/definition/robotics> [Accessed 6 May 2022].

Unicef.org, 2022. [online] Unicef.org. Available at: <https://www.unicef.org/innovation/sites/unicef.org.innovation/files/2018-11/Children%20and%20AI_Short%20Verson%20%283%29.pdf> [Accessed 6 May 2022].