6 AI, Robot Co-workers and Humans

Sven Nyholm

Note: Thanks to Arleen Salles and the other members of the Human Brain Project’s ‘RIU-Hub’, where I presented this material in August of 2021. My work on this chapter is part of the research programme Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies, which is funded through the Gravitation programme of the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO grant number 024.004.031).

Abstract

This chapter discusses the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) and robots into workplaces and the question of whether any such technologies could plausibly become a form of colleague for the human beings in these workplaces. People who work ...

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