[NOTE: The ETGG website also includes a discussion board, with (at this writing) one post titled “Anthropomorphising AI.” –Matthew]
Call for Participation
The Ethics and Technology Graduate Group (ETGG)
Work In Progress (WIP) 2021 Sessions
Online via Zoom
https://techethicsgroup.wixsite.com/tethics/events
Session 1: “Vulnerability, Trust and Human-Robot Interaction”
Wednesday 9th of June, 2021 – 17:00 – 18:30 CET
Presenter: Zachary Daus, University of Vienna
ABSTRACT: Recent attempts to engineer trustworthy robotic systems often conceive of trust in terms of predictability. Accordingly, to trust a robotic system (or a human) is to be able to predict what the robotic system (or human) will do. Design elements of robotic systems that seek to engender trust thus often focus on strategies such as making decision procedures transparent, replicating human movements, and developing trust-building training programs. I argue that all of these design strategies for engendering trust overlook a significant condition for trustworthiness: mutual vulnerability. Humans trust one another not merely as a result of being able to predict the actions of the other, but as a result of being mutually vulnerable to similar risks. Co-workers, for example, trust each other not merely because they can predict each other’s actions, but because both are mutually vulnerable to the consequences of the potential failure of their joint work project. The necessary condition of mutual vulnerability for trustworthy relations poses a significant obstacle to the establishment of trustworthy human-robot interaction. This is because robotic systems lack the affective intelligence that is necessary to be vulnerable. Despite the problems posed by mutual vulnerability for the achievement of trust in human-robot interaction, I will nonetheless propose potential solutions. These solutions will center around bringing users and creators of robotic systems into greater interaction, so that users of robotic systems can recognize the vulnerability of the creators of robotic systems and how this vulnerability is tied to the success (or failure) of the robotic systems they are using. Keywords: vulnerability, trust, human-robot interaction
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