Ethical Robot Tasks?
Ethical Robot Tasks: What I Believe They Can and Cannot Do I believe that robots should be allowed to complete many tasks more efficiently than humans. They already do. However, some matters, especially those that are personal, shall not be intruded upon by a robot, even one capable of empathy. If a robot were to take care of a grandmother because her children and grandchildren do not have the time or the resources to effectively take care of her, is the practice of robot senior care ethical? Let’s say that she is in a robot-run retirement home. She can socialize with fellow seniors, but she is dependent on the robots to bring her to the others. Why? Her family signed her up for the cheapest plan: she cannot escape the prying eyes of the robots since privacy costs too much ("free with ads," after all). The robots supervise her every move, and are capable of playing back every second of every day that she has been in the retirement home. Nothi...