As robots slip into more domains of human life-from the operating room to the bedroom-they take on our morally important tasks and decisions, as well as create new risks from psychological to physical. This book answers the urgent call to study their ethical, legal, and policy impacts.

Preface I. Moral and Legal Responsibility 1. Autonomous Vehicles and Moral Uncertainty Vikram Bhargava and Tae Wan Kim 2. Ethics Settings for Autonomous Vehicles Jason Millar 3. Autonomy and Responsibility in Hybrid Systems: The Example of Autonomous Cars Wulf Loh and Janina Sombetzki 4. Imputing Driverhood: Applying a Reasonable Driver Standard to Accidents Caused by Autonomous Vehicles Jeffery K. Gurney 5. Liability Law for Present and Future Robotics Technology Trevor N. White and Seth D. Baum 6. Skilled Perception, Authenticity, and the Case Against Automation David Zoller II. Trust and Human-Robot Interactions 7. Could a Robot Care? It's All in the Movement Darian Meacham and Matthew Studley 8. Robot Friends for Autistic Children: Monopoly Money or Counterfeit Currency? Alexis Elder 9. Pediatric Robotics and Ethics: The Robot Is Ready to See You Now, But Should It Be Trusted? Jason Borenstein, Ayanna Howard, and Alan R. Wagner 10. Trust and Human-Robot Interactions Jesse Kirkpatrick, Erin N. Hahn, and Amy J. Haufler 11. White Lies on Silver Tongues: Why Robots Need to Deceive (and How) Alistair M. C. Isaac and Will Bridewell 12. "Who's Johnny?" Anthropomorphic Framing in Human-Robot Interaction, Integration, and Policy Kate Darling III. Applications: From Love to War 13. Lovotics: Human-Robot Love and Sex Relationships Adrian David Cheok, Kasun Karunanayaka, and Emma Yann Zhang 14. Church-Turing Lovers Piotr Boltuc 15. The Internet of Things and Dual Layers of Ethical Concern Adam Henschke 16. Challenges to Engineering Moral Reasoners: Time and Context Michal Klincewicz 17. When Robots Should Do the Wrong Thing Brian Talbot, Ryan Jenkins, and Duncan Purves 18. Military Robots and the Likelihood of Armed Combat Leonard Kahn IV. The Future of AI and Robotics 19. Testing the Moral Status of Artificial Beings, or "I'm Going to Ask You Some Questions" Michael LaBossiere 20. Artificial Identity James DiGiovanna 21. Superintelligence as Superethical Steve Petersen 22. Artificial Intelligence and the Ethics of Self-Learning Robots Shannon Vallor and George Bekey 23. Robots and Space Ethics Keith Abney 24. On the Unabomber and Robots: The Need for a Philosophy of Technology Geared Toward Human Ends Jai Galliott Biosketches

"Robot Ethics 2.0 is worth your attention even if you are not a professional in the field...a decent amount of articles are well-written and will definitely enrich the research on robot ethics." -- Agn:e Alijauskait:e, Erkenntnis "They have done an admirable job of organ-izing the material on a wide range of topics, and 2.0 provides a useful addition to 1.0 for exploring the new debates in this field." -- Derek Leben, Metascience "The philosophy of technology, particularly its ethics, carries a heavy burden right now. This book is an excellent guide to the reasons why that burden is so pressing, and... offers a really strong roadmap of where we are, and where we ought to go." -- Robin L. Zebrowski, Departments of Philosophy, Psychology and Computer Science, Beloit College, Prometheus

Selling point: Focuses on new, emerging issues, particularly those related to robot cars Selling point: Features a diversity of experts, academically and geographically Selling point: Carefully curated by experienced editors, including section guides for the reader

Patrick Lin, Ph.D., is a philosophy professor and Director of the Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group at California Polytechnic State University. He is also affiliated with Stanford Law School, University of Notre Dame, and World Economic Forum; and previously with Stanford's School of Engineering, the U.S. Naval Academy, and Dartmouth College. On the ethics of emerging technologies, he has provided counsel to the U.S. Department of Defense, the United Nations, Google, Apple, and many other government and industry organizations. Ryan Jenkins, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of philosophy and a Senior Fellow at the Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group at California Polytechnic State University. He focuses on normative ethics (especially consequentialism) and applied ethics, including military ethics and emerging technologies such as driverless cars, robots, and autonomous weapons. Keith Abney, A.B.D., is senior lecturer in the Philosophy Department and a Senior Fellow at the Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group at California Polytechnic State University, with research that includes work on demarcating science from non-science, moral status and sustainability, astronaut and space bioethics, patenting life, human enhancement, just war theory and the use of autonomous weapons, robot ethics, and other aspects of the ethical implications of emerging sciences and technologies

Selling point: Focuses on new, emerging issues, particularly those related to robot cars Selling point: Features a diversity of experts, academically and geographically Selling point: Carefully curated by experienced editors, including section guides for the reader