Constructing a Robo-ethics According to Engineering Needs

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25370033
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Philosophy/Ethics
• Research Institution: Kanazawa Medical University
• Principal Investigator: HONDA Kojiro 金沢医科大学, 一般教育機構, 講師 (40410302)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): KUKITA Minao 名古屋大学, 大学院情報科学研究科, 准教授 (10648869) ; KANZAKI Nobutsugu 滋賀大学, 教育学部, 准教授 (50422910)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): IGASHIRA Masahiko 一橋大学, 大学院社会学研究科, 准教授 (70533321)
• Research Collaborator: SAIJYO Rena 京都大学, 大学院文学研究科, 研究員 ; OOIE Shinya 神戸大学, 大学院文学研究科, 博士後期課程 ; OKAMOTO Shinpei 広島大学, 大学院文学研究科, 博士後期課程
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: ロボットの倫理学 / 人工知能の倫理学 / ロボット倫理綱領 / 科学技術倫理 / 技術哲学 / 科学哲学 / 科学技術政策 / 倫理学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The primary product of this research project was to open a forum to discuss about robo-ethics problems between philosophical researchers and roboticists or researchers of artificial intelligence. We made a bridge between two fields of research and a network of personal contacts.　The network of researchers was also extended to overseas. We organized a panel session of robo-ethics in Society for Philosophy of Technology (SPT2013). There we succeeded to provide several Japanese aspects of ethical problem in robotics to international academic community. Thorough a lot of communication with roboticists, our members of this project were getting familiar with robotic technology, and able to know a contemporary limit and possibilities of it. We published several articles about robo-ethics, which dealt a variety of ethical problems of robot in Japanese context, and they were featured in SHAKAI TO RINRI (Society and Ethics) published from Nanzan University.

Free Research Field

哲学倫理学