arXiv:2509.02624cs.CYcs.AI2025-09AAAI被引 6

通过社区研讨,提炼出机器人福祉应用的四大核心伦理问题。

Who Owns The Robot?: Four Ethical and Socio-technical Questions about Wellbeing Robots in the Real World through Community Engagement

  • 以社区参与方式调研三类群体对福祉机器人的看法。
  • 提出四类关键问题:安全、归属、所有权与使用动机。
  • 为开发者提供反思伦理与社会影响的实用框架。

研究表明,机器人教练在促进福祉方面具有重要作用。然而,福祉机器人的实际部署引发诸多伦理与技术社会问题。为此,我们开展以社区为中心的前瞻性伦理研究,考察三个代表性不足群体(科学节公众、女性计算机科学家、人文学科研究者)对机器人福祉教练在真实环境中应用的看法。通过工作坊收集定性数据,采用社会机器人共同设计伦理画布工具,并结合主题分析法进行解读。分析揭示出四个核心主题:1)机器人是否安全,如何验证?2)机器人是为谁而建,由谁共建?3)机器人及数据归谁所有?4)为何需要机器人?我们基于最新文献讨论这些议题,提出未来研究方向,并将这四个问题作为机器人研发与部署过程中必须反思的框架,以确保技术发展契合公共利益。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Recent studies indicate that robotic coaches can play a crucial role in promoting wellbeing. However, the real-world deployment of wellbeing robots raises numerous ethical and socio-technical questions and concerns. To explore these questions, we undertake a community-centered investigation to examine three different communities' perspectives on using robotic wellbeing coaches in real-world environments. We frame our work as an anticipatory ethical investigation, which we undertake to better inform the development of robotic technologies with communities' opinions, with the ultimate goal of aligning robot development with public interest. We conducted workshops with three communities who are under-represented in robotics development: 1) members of the public at a science festival, 2) women computer scientists at a conference, and 3) humanities researchers interested in history and philosophy of science. In the workshops, we collected qualitative data using the Social Robot Co-Design Canvas on Ethics. We analysed the collected qualitative data with Thematic Analysis, informed by notes taken during workshops. Through our analysis, we identify four themes regarding key ethical and socio-technical questions about the real-world use of wellbeing robots. We group participants' insights and discussions around these broad thematic questions, discuss them in light of state-of-the-art literature, and highlight areas for future investigation. Finally, we provide the four questions as a broad framework that roboticists can and should use during robotic development and deployment, in order to reflect on the ethics and socio-technical dimensions of their robotic applications, and to engage in dialogue with communities of robot users. The four questions are: 1) Is the robot safe and how can we know that?, 2) Who is the robot built for and with?, 3) Who owns the robot and the data?, and 4) Why a robot?.

伦理机器人社区参与福祉

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