Ethical dilemma of robots in soceity Essay - 2545 Words

In recent years, robotics has become increasingly applicable in our society due to their usefulness. Initially, robots were automated machines that performed a limited amount of tasks, but over time, their usefulness has increased, as has their complexity. Throughout these years, engineers and scientists have improved robotic capabilities to the point that they are comparable to human abilities in several aspects. The first industrial robot was created in the 1960’s , used by the General motor assembly line for welding parts to auto bodies, according to the International Federation of Robotics . Now, robots have gained increased interest with engineers and even scientists to continue to create and transform to robots to be more complex and†¦show more content†¦Sherry Turkle, who is a professor of social studies of science, demonstrates her perspective on how robots affect on society in the book, Alone Together: Why we Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Oth er. Turkle takes a step deeper as she analyzes the effects of social robots when they replace humans in society. Social robots are programmed to contain emotions and characteristics similar to humans. She argues that social robots cause psychological effects in society in a negative connotation; more specifically she argues that it is unethical to replace robots with humans. In the first part of her book, Turkle gives her perspective and research of the Robotic Movement by using many different examples of social robots used as toys and even video games that once used or still used among adults and children today, such as Furbies, Tomagotchi, and my real- baby and sociable robots . She concluded from the results of her research that the emotive robots can cause emotional and social effects to humans. Therefore, she focuses on the effects of emotive robots when and if they are replaced as human. In Turkles book, many ethical questions arise from the research she gathered from her studies. One question that arises is what distinguishes human from a machine? I found that her argument brings this question to mind because she