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  • Philosophy of Technology
  • Artificial Intelligence Ethics
  • Human-Robot Interaction

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  • The increasing integration of social robots into daily life, especially during periods of isolation, heightens ethical considerations in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI).
  • Concerns arise regarding the social, emotional, and moral implications of these AI-driven systems.
  • This study specifically examines the ethical virtue of social robots powered by deep learning artificial intelligence (AI).

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether social robots, particularly those utilizing deep learning AI, can be considered ethically virtuous.
  • To explore the concept of "virtuous robotic AI systems" from a virtue ethics perspective.
  • To determine if AI can genuinely embody ethical virtue or merely exhibit virtuous behavior.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of Aristotelian virtue ethics, focusing on its three core requirements for virtue: right actions, right feelings, and the right way of acting.
  • Evaluation of current AI capabilities against these philosophical criteria for virtue.
  • Review of contemporary research in machine ethics, technology ethics, and HRI.

Main Results:

  • AI systems are incapable of genuinely possessing ethical virtue.
  • AI can only simulate virtuous behavior, failing to meet the criteria of having the right feelings or acting in the right way intrinsically.
  • The Aristotelian framework's requirements for virtue (right action, feeling, and manner) are currently unachievable for AI.

Conclusions:

  • Social robots powered by AI cannot be genuinely virtuous according to Aristotelian virtue ethics.
  • The development of Autonomous Artificial Moral Agents within a virtue ethics framework faces significant philosophical challenges.
  • Further research is needed to understand the ethical boundaries and potential of AI in HRI, particularly concerning moral agency.