ROBOT ETHICS CRASH COURSE AVAILABLE FOR FREE. WHAT WOULD "YOU" DO WITH C3P0 IF YOU HAD ONE?

Stanford Law School's Center For Internet and Society is offering a limited time crash course on 'Robot Ethics', free of charge. Topics range from security to sex, privacy, social impact and more. It's well worth a crash course, as many people in the near future will be attempting to navigate what's socially acceptable. We can't have a society where Luke Skywalker* is doing 'nasty things' to C3P0....or can we?

We're certainly moving beyond battery operated sex toys, internet porn and Smart Phone   (mis) etiquette. People have cars and iPhones and Furniture and Clothing to define             themselves and their social status. Will having an Android Mistress (or Mistresses) or          Personal Robot Companion(s) or Automated Lawn Mowers or a RoboPet or two or three, be the new Vogue? The Jones' have 2 Robopets, a RoboMower and a RoboSnowBlower  and I hear Mister Jones,                                                                                                        
a RoboCompanion Salesman himself, has a couple of Android Mistresses on the side. No wonder his wife is always seen with her Harlequin Romance RoboCompanion all the time. The Jones' are rarely ever seen together nowadays, and the neighbours have often seen     their son bringing home his best friend's RoboTutor Wonderwoman Edition. He must  be struggling with his grades. I'm sure he's learning sooo much. I'm sure she's jailbroken  by now. Can you blame the Jones'?                                                                                    

We (the people who create, invent, design and market)  our toys and technology which ultimately changes our laws or behaviour. Our ethics have been timeless but our technology, its temptations and availability over the demographics of populations, can over rule our morals, making us into blind servants of our common self-induced de-humanization. When your toaster can link up with your hormones and more (through official design or unofficial hacking) no one will have the desire to fix the toaster. We will have been pre-occupied and distracted, unable to deal with systemic problems. It seems to have been heading that way for some time, in my view.

Ultimately, 'society' 'self-decides'....nevertheless, the following crash courses may help prepare us for what may come to pass. Like in the original movie, 'Total Recall' we may have to "get ready for a nice surprise!" See links below:

Robot Ethics Crash Course Paper.

Robots and Privacy   (Click download and then you may choose option: "Download anonymously," simply because it's easier.)



-Paul von Dubrovnik


*Any brand names are used as
artistic license only.

 

Robots and Humans...BFFs?

We made them in our image...what do we expect? Will our robot children pick up after our bad habits, or will they pick up on our bad habits? Will we hack them or will they hack us?  We will probably want to have robot-free vacation get-aways robot-free or
robot-reduced zones or perhaps more HUMAN FREE(ISH) ZONES, where robots are free to work out the damage we have caused on a grand scale....like how the robots are cleaning up Chemical Spills and Oil Spills....it's kind of becoming that way already.
Many places across the world, since the rise of artificial robotics and cybernetics, have transformed our economies and environment and moved on to the next area.

Detroit was mostly human, with robots making cars, and then the humans stopped working and the robots stopped working and robots 'popped up' in Japan, then Korea and China. Can we learn to co-exist? The Robots, the Human Masters, the Human Masters of the Humans and the Robots? So far, it's been a wild ride. Has anyone noticed their rise? We are the ones that need organic food...the robots do not. What will we do? Perhaps they will offer us a place in their neuro-feed. We can plug in just like Neo from the Matrix. They will make sure your heart rate is fine....right?

For now, the individual humanoid robots at least, are getting better at figuring out bringing us our lemonade. We should show them gratitude. As so should they, even if they don't understand. We need to incorporate the Golden Rule into their software and also have them take the Hippocratic Oath, before it will be too late. But then, if the masters can't follow it, how can the engineers and software designers 'program' this into them? If the golden rule was actually 'programed' into our internet, hypochondriacs would have to be blocked out of searching for medical diseases and so on.

For now, our robo assistants will bring us a drink. For now we thank them. Except the people who lost their jobs to an 'artificial entity or entities'.  The robot revolution has been happening since the Luddites rose up and warned us. For now, I press enter+paradigm+shift on my keyboard and see what happens....

OH OH it's an ad for  (insert whatever                          )

-Paul von Dubrovnik

Check out the robotics industry's improvement in better automated robots here: 

http://www.33rdsquare.com/2014/01/roboearth-project-aims-to-build-cloud.html

The Robot Revolution already started before you were born. Here's a recent example:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/jeremy-warner/9778354/Our-robotic-revolution-is-only-just-beginning-to-gather-steam.html

Korea wants to have all robot factories. People better start making their own Kimchi again, lol. Or is that already made by robots? No Kimchi 4 U!

http://www.advancedtechnologykorea.com/9013/