Abstract
With the advancement of AI technology, the appearance of intelligent autonomous care robots in our society is likely in the foreseeable future. My research focuses on the ethical dimensions in the autonomous care robots’ decisions and actions. In this paper I will first present the partial result of an online survey that I launched in March 2022. The survey, entitled “Human-in-the-Loop Ethical AI for Social Robots,” polls people’s opinions on what kind of virtues they would like our future care robots to demonstrate. I will then explicate how Confucian virtue ethics can respond to human expectations of what kind of virtuous care robots we want in our society.
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According to the World Economic Forum’s ‘The Future Jobs Report 2020,’ AI is expected to replace 85 million jobs worldwide by 2025 (IndustryWired, January 11, 2022).
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Qualtrics is a simple web-based survey tool to conduct survey research, evaluations, and other data collection activities.
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I would like to thank Professor Yu Bai from the Computer Engineering Program at California State University at Fullerton (CSUF) for assisting me with the initial setup of Qualtrics. I also want to acknowledge the invaluable contribution of Julien Rouvere, a data analyst at CSUF, for programming automatic data analysis of this project.
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Liu, J. (2022). Human-in-the-Loop Ethical AI for Care Robots and Confucian Virtue Ethics. In: Cavallo, F., et al. Social Robotics. ICSR 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13818. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24670-8_59
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