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Employing robots

Mildenberger, Carl David (2019). Employing robots. Disputatio, 11(53):89-110.

Abstract

In this paper, I am concerned with what automation—widely considered to be the “future of work”—holds for the artificially intelligent agents we aim to employ. My guiding question is whether it is normatively problematic to employ artificially intelligent agents like, for example, autonomous robots as workers. The answer I propose is the following. There is nothing inherently normatively problematic about employing autonomous robots as workers. Still, we must not put them to perform just any work, if we want to avoid blame. This might not sound like much of a limitation. Interestingly, however, we can argue for this claim based on metaphysically and normatively parsimonious grounds. Namely, all I rely on when arguing for my claim is that the robots we aim to employ exhibit a kind of autonomy.

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Item Type:Journal Article, refereed, original work
Communities & Collections:01 Faculty of Theology and the Study of Religion > Center for Ethics
06 Faculty of Arts > Institute of Philosophy
Dewey Decimal Classification:100 Philosophy
Language:English
Date:1 November 2019
Deposited On:27 Nov 2020 11:23
Last Modified:24 Oct 2024 01:37
Publisher:Universidade de Lisboa
ISSN:0873-626X
OA Status:Green
Free access at:Publisher DOI. An embargo period may apply.
Publisher DOI:https://doi.org/10.2478/disp-2019-0013
Official URL:https://content.sciendo.com/downloadpdf/journals/disp/11/53/article-p89.xml
Related URLs:http://disputatio.com/ (Organisation)
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