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Figure 2. Robot controls electrodes forcing a person to move his or her arm. (Photo
courtesy of Montpellier Laboratory of Informatics, Robotics, and Microelectronics.)
found it convenient to attend to them.
The worst of dictators might deploy
innocents and their vehicles as human
shields or suicide bombs.
When robots are used to dress people
or use electrodes to move people's arms
within reach (Figure 2), the questions
become more intimate. Should a robot
designed to assist the physically challenged be able to hold people in place to
dress them? Should we require all such
consumer devices to include emotion
recognition (rumored to be available in
two years with Kinect2) and release a
person who is distressed?
Some technologists shrug their shoulders and say that these are management,
marketing, and governmental decisions,
outside their control. As Members of the
IEEE, our code of ethics [2] requires us to
do better. The fact is that when robots
can control humans' motions, using
human's superior grasping capabilities to
their ends, someone is programming the
robot and someone else is managing the
programmer. As those programmers and
managers, the IEEE Members strongly
influence design. The IEEE Members
contribute and even spearhead the best
practices and standards. As long as victims have the right within their nation to
sue corporations who abuse them, the
best practices and standards serve as
guidelines for companies to avoid such
suits, even without the support of international law.
The coalition controlling the Internet
is a mighty example to follow for setting
up an international governing body.
They followed in the footsteps of the
American Founding Fathers, who tried
to design a constitution that would keep
the power of the 1% in check so that the
99% could have the opportunity to lead
fulfilling lives. Likewise, the Internet
Architecture Board has tried to design a
system that maximizes accessibility
while minimizing abuse. Do we need a
subcommittee of the Internet Architecture Board devoted to the special questions of robotics and automation?
The capabilities we build into the
technology of today will, even more than
laws, determine the world of tomorrow.
Will anyone who wants to extend their
reach be able to deploy the power of
technology or will it be driven by a powerhungry few, without thought for people,
family, and feelings? Much of the direction will be determined by individual engineers and researchers, decision by
decision. We are the builders of the future.
References
[1] M. Spence, "Global employment challenges,"
China Daily, Oct. 19, 2011.
[2] IEEE code of ethics [Online]. Available: portal.ieee.org/web/aboutus/ethics/code.html
http://tal.ieee.org/web/aboutus/ethics/code.html
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