Wulf, I constructed an analog set of robotic laws years ago. Had you not heard? They went digital! Dr Fearon Sent: Friday, December 06, 2019 at 5:34 PM From: "Wulf Loh" <wulf.loh@izew.uni-tuebingen.de> To: "William Fearon" <william.fearon@mail.com> Subject: Re: [Air-L] CfA Workshop “Social Robotics and the Good Life" Dear William Fearon, but which laws? Hopefully not these ones: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws. Best regards Wulf Loh PostDoc Researcher BmBF Projekte NIKA/INTEGRAM IZEW - Internationales Zentrum für Ethik in den Wissenschaften Universität Tübingen Wilhelmstr. 19 72074 Tübingen Am 06.12.2019 um 16:50 schrieb William Fearon: I Robot! 'Laws, laws and more laws'. Regards Dr William (F.W.) Fearon Sent: Friday, December 06, 2019 at 1:22 PM From: "Wulf Loh" [1]<wulf.loh@izew.uni-tuebingen.de> To: [2]air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] CfA Workshop “Social Robotics and the Good Life" Call for Abstracts: Workshop “Social Robotics and the Good Life – The Normative Side of Forming Emotional Bonds with Robots” Organizers: International Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities, University of Tübingen (Regina Ammicht Quinn and Wulf Loh, both Tübingen, in cooperation with Janina Loh, Vienna, and Charles Ess, Oslo) Date: May 7-8, 2020 Venue:IZEW Tübingen, Germany Social robotics has the strong potential of becoming more and more prevalent in the coming years, especially in the realms of elder day care, child rearing, and education. As human beings have the fascinating ability to emotionally bond not exclusively with other human beings, but also with animals, plants, and objects, it is highly likely that human-machine-relationships will arise from these human-robotic-interactions. While children and the elderly constitute vulnerable groups that merit special consideration, at the heart of the issue lie fundamental ethical questions that concern human-robot-interactions /per se/. Do human-robot-relationships necessarily constitute a form of manipulation, since any form of reciprocity on the side of the robot is merely simulated? Are these relationships then /per se/ detrimental to the good life, as they replace “real” relationships? What constitutes such a “real” relationship? Are more intimate relationships with robots, such as friendship or even love, possible and ethically sound? Which design cues does an ethical design of robots have to take into account? And: how do we conceive and ground “good lives” as more and more of the virtues and interactions – starting with those of friendship – of good lives will be increasingly interwoven with social robots? For discussing these and further questions regarding the normativity of emotional bonds with robots, in this interdisciplinary workshop we invite submissions with a focus on (but not restricted to) topics such as ofriendship olove osex ocare otrust oobjectophilia or object sexuality ofeminist perspectives on relationships ofamily, children, and nurture odisappointment, anger, and hate omorally appropriate behavior with regard to robots. The workshop will take place on the 7^th and 8^th of May 2020 at the International Centre for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities (IZEW) at the University of Tübingen. *Prof. Dr. Charles Ess*, Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo, will be a fellow at the Center of Ethics at that time. He will give a keynote lecture and will be our dialogue partner throughout the workshop. Please submit abstracts of around 500 words to [3]Wulf.loh@izew.uni-tuebingen.de [4]<mailto:Wulf.loh@izew.uni-tuebingen.de>by January 31, 2020. Acceptance notifications will be sent out by the end of February 2020. An English-language edited volume is planned with the publisher /transcript/. Those, who are invited to present their project during the workshop should be prepared to send their completed paper of about 6.000-8.000 words to [5]Janina.loh@univie.ac.at [6]<mailto:Janina.loh@univie.ac.at>by August 31, 2020. _______________________________________________ The [7]Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers [8]http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: [9]http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: [10]http://www.aoir.org/ References 1. mailto:wulf.loh@izew.uni-tuebingen.de 2. mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org 3. mailto:Wulf.loh@izew.uni-tuebingen.de 4. mailto:Wulf.loh@izew.uni-tuebingen.de 5. mailto:Janina.loh@univie.ac.at 6. mailto:Janina.loh@univie.ac.at 7. mailto:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org 8. http://aoir.org/ 9. http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org 10. http://www.aoir.org/