THE CONCEPT OF "ROBOETHICS": STATUS ROBOT IN THE CONTEXT OF SOCIAL RELATIONS

Abstract

The article explains and features the understanding of the concept of "roboethics" and the place of robots in the context of social relations. It is revealed that in the modern situation, the problem of interaction between a robot and a person is urgent since the flowering of robotics is just beginning. However, the prerequisites for the intensive integration of robots into everyday human life already exist. And the task of the researchers is not only to predict a sharp increase in the development of this trend but also to outline the range of issues and problems that will directly affect human existence in the future. It has been proven that the issue of the relationship between ethics and artificial intelligence is fundamentally different from what is meant, for example, by the ethical problems of gene technologies, informatics, natural science, etc. This difference is determined by the fact that in artificial intelligence, ethical issues are closer to the understanding of ethics in a philosophical or socio-humanitarian sense, and these ethical aspects are primarily related to the fact that they relate to issues of behavior and decision-making. The definition of roboethics is formulated as a field of applied ethics, which aims to develop scientific, cultural, and technical solutions that can be common to different social groups and people of different beliefs. A major problem in robotics is that robotics scientists, researchers, and users evaluate robots from different perspectives. The thesis that the ethical dilemmas of robotics are unique in that they are transferred from the sphere of human relations is substantiated. However, the specificity of this issue is that people have the opportunity to lay down and form ethical and moral principles for the functioning of robots. Therefore, solving, if not all, the key ethical problems of robotics can be achieved thanks to the creation of international ethical principles and codes, which will be a rather important stage in the development of humanity, since robotics does not just affect the life of society, but actually changes it.