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Caridad Estes Professor Bowen PHIL 202 Final Essay December 1, 2021 3. Carebots and other social robots are increasingly playing interactive roles in our lives. As the design and implementation of carebots rapidly develops, we will bring them into our homes, hospitals, and other care facilities to assist in the care for the sick, disabled, elderly, children, or otherwise vulnerable persons. We will entrust them with social roles involving companionship and even intimate caregiving tasks (e.g. bathing, dressing, feeding, turning, medicine administration, monitoring, or transporting). As the applications for social robots and their involvement in our lives increases it raises pressing questions about the ethical implications of human-robot interactions, as well as the moral status of social robots (cf. Darling 2014: 9-21, Gunkel 2015). Should social robots, and carebots in particular, be afforded some moral rights and legal protections (e.g. prohibitions on robot abuse and mistreatment)? Why or why not? What are the potential problems with granting or denying social robots some degree of moral standing? How should we establish limiting factors and determine the extent of protections for social robots? (i)Defend a position on the moral status of social robots with a principled argument and use detailed examples of concrete human practices to illustrate the ethical implications of your principled position; (ii) consider how someone might raise a compelling objection that targets a premise or inference in your argument (explain the reasoning that supports the objection) ; and (iii) offer a reasonable rejoinder to the objection by either modifying your position to accommodate the concern or countering the objection with an argument that neutralizes the force of the objection. Work in the field of machine medical ethics, especially as it applies to increasingly autonomous home health care robots, it focuses attention on the capabilities, modes of implementation, and range of actions of these mechanisms for the sake of respecting the dignity and right of human patients, (Gunkel, 2015). Caregiving practices can be stressful as well as exhausting. In modern society, caregivers are known to be stretched both physically and emotionally beyond their naturally limited human capacities. The introduction of carebots and

other social robots are increasingly playing an interactive role in our lives. As more designs and employment of these carebots swiftly develop they will be placed into homes, hospitals, and other care facilities to work alongside human caregivers in providing care for the sick, disabled, elderly, children and vulnerable persons. People must learn to trust them with social roles such as companionship and even intimate tasks like bathing, dressing, feeding, turning, and medicine administration. With the application of carebots, it is important to conversate about the ethical implication of human-robot interactions as well as the moral status of these social robots. A social robot is a physically embodied, autonomous agent that communicates and interacts with humans on a social level. These robots are able to communicate through social cues, display adaptive learning behavior, and mimic various emotional states (). People are prone to anthropomorphism which is when humans project their won inherent qualities onto other entities to make them seem more human-like. Social robots have a key characteristic and are specifically designed to stimulate these same projections (). These social robots should be granted some moral rights and legal protection. There are many instances when this has been granted, (), mentions an example with military robots. In this example a robot was used to step on defused landmines which led to the colonel in command to call off the exercise. The reason for this was because he felt as though it was inhuman and inflicted on their pathos and could not stand to watch the robot be burned, scarred, and crippled dragging itself on its last leg. This shows that robots should be treated like humans in the way that if we perceive them as lifelike things, we shouldn’t be treating them like a device but more as a creature. When a social robot has the three key factors which are physicality, perceived autonomous movement, and social behavior it leads to humans treating them more like a human rather than a robot. These interactions between patient and carebot are important because when there is the teamwork between a carebot, and human caregiver and it can give the patient that feelings of social as well as emotional support. Regarding the moral and legal protection of these carebots it is important to understand the difference between the concept of person and the concept of a human “being”. In the history of the of not only the United States humans have been known to define numerous other groups as less than humans. When comparing this to the moral rights of carebots it is vital to understand that although they are not human beings, they should be considered persons and have rights and responsibilities that should be recognized and protect by both national and international law especially if they are helping us. Consciousness is something that makes someone or something a person, with the way technology is developing these carebots have the possibility of developing this consciousness which furthermore proves why they deserve moral and legal protection. Some may argue that there are significant issues that revolve around not only social robots, but the emotional attachment that comes with them. Many believe that the development and dissemination of social carebot technology encourages a society that will no longer be able to differentiate between real and fake which leads to the undermining the values of authenticity we aim to preserve (). Although this interpretation worries that society may start seeing robots as real lose that sense of reality it is important to note how exactly these carebots can help benefit caregivers. In this working world there is a shortage of nurses due to the overwhelming amount of stress and over time working they experience. With the increased number of aging adults needing geriatric care that can come with chronic diseases the inclusion

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