To the future: finding the moral common ground in human-robot relations – IAM Network

AI robots are still not sophisticated enough to understand humans or the complexity of social situations, says UNSW's Dr Masimiliano Cappuccio. "So we need to think about how we interact with social and companion robots to instead help us become more aware of our own behaviour, limitations, vices or bad habits," says Dr Cappuccio, the Deputy Director of Values in Defense and Security Technology at UNSW Canberra. "And this can be in the areas of greater self-discipline and self-control but also in learning virtues such as generosity and empathy." Dr Cappuccio is the lead author of Can Robots Make Us Better Humans? Virtuous Robotics and the Good Life with Artificial Agents which was written in collaboration with UNSW Art & Design's Dr Eduardo Sandoval and Professor Mari Velonaki along with academics from the University of Western Sydney and Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden It is also the first in a collection co-edited by Dr Cappuccio, Dr Sandoval and Prof. Velonaki and published in the International Journal of Robotics as a special issue titled Virtuous Robotics: Artificial Agents and the Good Life.