ETHICBOTS : Emerging Technoethics of Human Interaction with Communication, Bionic, and robOTic systemsCoordination Action

Goals and Motivations. To promote and coordinate a multidisciplinary group of researchers into artificial intelligence, robotics, anthropology, moral philosophy, philosophy of science, psychology, and cognitive science, with the common purpose of identifying and analyzing techno-ethical issues concerned with the integration of human beings and artificial (software/hardware) entities. To identify techno-ethical case-studies on the basis of a state-of-the-art survey in emerging technologies for the integration of human and artificial entities. - to identify and analyze techno-ethical issues concerned with the integration of human beings and artificial entities, by means of case-studies analysis. - to establish a techno-ethically aware community of researchers, by promoting workshops, dissemination, training activities, as well as by the construction of an internet knowledge-base, on the subject of techno-ethical issues emerging from current investigations on the interaction between biological and artificial (software/hardware) entities. - to generate inputs to EU for techno-ethical monitoring, warning, and opinion generation.