Home task. Watch the film” Artificial Intelligence” at home.

1. Where is the scene set? What happened to the Earth? What were the consequences?

2. Who are featured more moral – people or robots? Give your reasons.

3. Do you think that robots have rights? If so, what are they and how they be protected?

4. What moral issues does the film rise?

5. Can you make a situation for the panel discussion out of the film?

Topic 4. Robotics: moral issues

“Robots such as Honda's Asimo will never fully replace human beings?”

You will need to think about the main areas where a Robot could undertake human functions, e.g.

• Medicine
• The Military
• Industry
• The Home

Social / Ethical Issues

• Effects of replacing people in with robots in the workplace (social and economic)
• Using robots in situations that might endanger human beings: ethical decisions
• Social impact of human interaction with robots: artificial pets, robots for the disabled and elderly
• Robots in medicine: robotic surgery, computer-controlled prostheses (social impact and ethical considerations)
• Reliability of robotic devices, particularly in life-threatening situations

Robot rights

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein considers a key issue in the ethics of artificial intelligence: if a machine can be created that has intelligence, could it also feel? If it can feel, does it have the same rights as a human? The idea also appears in modern science fiction, such as the film A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, in which humanoid machines have the ability to feel emotions (see Isskusstvennyj. Razum video)

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