<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Social robotics are autonomous robots or Artificial Moral Agents (AMA), that will interact respect and embody human ethical values. However, the conceptual and practical problems of building such systems have not yet been resolved, playing a role of significant challenge for computational modeling. It seems that the lack of success in constructing robots, <italic>ceteris paribus</italic>, is due to the conceptual and algorithmic limitations of the current design of ethical robots. This paper proposes a new approach for developing ethical capacities in robotic systems, one based on the concept of Aristotelian phronesis. Phronesis in principle reflexes closer human ethics than the ethical paradigms we employ today in ethical robotics. This paper describes the essential features of phronesis and proposes a high-level architecture for implementing phronetic principles in autonomous robots. Phronetic robotics is in its early stages of conceptualization, so many of the presented ideas are speculative and require further research.<sup>2</sup></p></abstract>

Social robotics are autonomous robots or Artificial Moral Agents (AMA), that will interact respect and embody human ethical values. However, the conceptual and practical problems of building such systems have not yet been resolved, playing a role of significant challenge for computational modeling. It seems that the lack of success in constructing robots, ceteris paribus, is due to the conceptual and algorithmic limitations of the current design of ethical robots. This paper proposes a new approach for developing ethical capacities in robotic systems, one based on the concept of Aristotelian phronesis. Phronesis in principle reflexes closer human ethics than the ethical paradigms we employ today in ethical robotics. This paper describes the essential features of phronesis and proposes a high-level architecture for implementing phronetic principles in autonomous robots. Phronetic robotics is in its early stages of conceptualization, so many of the presented ideas are speculative and require further research.2

Phronetic Ethics in Social Robotics: A New Approach to Building Ethical Robots

The Pontifical University of John Paul II in Cracow

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric

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Social robotics are autonomous robots or Artificial Moral Agents (AMA), that will interact respect and embody human ethical values. However, the conceptual and...

Phronetic Ethics in Social Robotics: A New Approach to Building Ethical Robots

Published Online: Nov 04, 2020

Page range: 165 - 183

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/slgr-2020-0033

Keywords
phronetic ethics, ethical robots, Aristotelian ethics, artificial moral agents, socially integrated autonomous machines, roboethics, machine ethics, autonomous ethical systems, phronesis, ethical robots, ethical ascend

© 2020 Paweł Polak et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Phronetic Ethics in Social Robotics: A New Approach to Building Ethical Robots

Published Online: Nov 04, 2020

Page range: 165 - 183

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/slgr-2020-0033

Keywordsphronetic ethics, ethical robots, Aristotelian ethics, artificial moral agents, socially integrated autonomous machines, roboethics, machine ethics, autonomous ethical systems, phronesis, ethical robots, ethical ascend

© 2020 Paweł Polak et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Keywords
phronetic ethics, ethical robots, Aristotelian ethics, artificial moral agents, socially integrated autonomous machines, roboethics, machine ethics, autonomous ethical systems, phronesis, ethical robots, ethical ascend