Should robots be given guns? Should robots be used as sex workers? These are among the many interesting ethical questions raised by Penny Arcade’s “Automata: Silverside”.
While “Automata” may be a work of fiction, robot warriors and robot sex workers are not; they are in use today, for better or worse.
Join researchers from the field of Human-Robot Interaction for a conversation on robot ethics, and learn what today’s leading robot-ethicists have to say about the ethics of “Silverside”.
For additional information check out their blog post or view the slides.
Panelists: Willie Wilson, Gordon Briggs, Tom Williams [Twitter]
Source: Tom Williams