Exploring the ethical sensitivity of Ph.D. students in robotics
CoRR(2024)
Abstract
Ethical sensitivity, generally defined as a person's ability to recognize
ethical issues and attribute importance to them, is considered to be a crucial
competency in the life of professionals and academics and an essential
prerequisite to successfully meeting ethical challenges. A concept that first
emerged in moral psychology almost 40 years ago, ethical sensitivity has been
widely studied in healthcare, business, and other domains. Conversely, it
appears to have received little to no attention within the robotics community,
even though choices in the design and deployment of robots are likely to have
wide-ranging, profound ethical impacts on society. Due to the negative
repercussions that a lack of ethical sensitivity can have in these contexts,
promoting the development of ethical sensitivity among roboticists is
imperative, and endeavoring to train this competency becomes a critical
undertaking. Therefore, as a first step in this direction and within the
context of a broader effort aimed at developing an online interactive ethics
training module for roboticists, we conducted a qualitative exploration of the
ethical sensitivity of a sample of Ph.D. students in robotics using case
vignettes that exemplified ethical tensions in disaster robotics.
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