The new breed : what our history with animals reveals about our future with robots /
Kate Darling.
- First edition.
- xix, 310 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-293) and index.
Author's note: What is a robot, anyway? -- Work, weaponry, responsibility. Workers trained and engineered ; Integrating the new breed ; Trespassers: Assigning responsibility for autonomous decisions -- Companionship. Robots versus toasters ; (Hu)man's best friend: The history of companion animals ; A new category of relationship ; The real issues with robot companionship -- Violence, empathy, and rights. Western animal and robot rights theories ; Free Willy: Western animal rights in practice ; Don't kick the robot ; Final thoughts: Predicting the future. Introduction -- I: II: III:
"The MIT Media Lab researcher and robot ethicist offers an optimistic look at our future with robots based on our historical relationships with animals"-- For readers of The Second Machine Age or The Soul of an Octopus, a bold, exciting exploration of how building diverse kinds of relationships with robots--inspired by how we interact with animals--could be the key to making our future with robot technology work. There has been a lot of ink devoted to discussions of how robots will replace us and take our jobs. But MIT Media Lab researcher and technology policy expert Kate Darling argues just the opposite, suggesting that treating robots with a bit of humanity, more like the way we treat animals, will actually serve us better. From a social, legal, and ethical perspective, she shows that our current ways of thinking don't leave room for the robot technology that is soon to become part of our everyday routines. Robots are likely to supplement--rather than replace--our own skills and relationships. So if we consider our history of incorporating animals into our work, transportation, military, and even families, we actually have a solid basis for how to contend with this future. A deeply original analysis of our technological future and the ethical dilemmas that await us, The New Breed explains how the treatment of machines can reveal a new understanding of our own history, our own systems, and how we relate--not just to nonhumans, but also to one another. --
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Human-animal relationships Human-machine systems Robotics--Human factors Animal Rights Human-Animal Bond Man-Machine Systems Object Attachment Robotics Relations homme-animal. Robotique--Facteurs humains. Systèmes homme-machine.