NECROROBOTICS: The Ethics of Personalised Resurrection

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Abstract

Ethical and legal questions of robotic personalisation can be addressed in various ways. While seeking to theorise on ethical issues related to robotic personalisation, this paper proposes the concept of necrorobotics in order to target a particular space of personalisation, governed by a variety of norms: death, and the reuse of dead persons data to create robotic agency. Based on recent advancements in what is here labeled as resurrection technologies, the paper creates a speculative provocation in order to reflect on ethical implications of using AI-tools to bring back the sounds, textual behaviour and animated imagery of a deceased friend or close relative.
Original languageEnglish
Pages1-4
Number of pages4
Publication statusAccepted/In press - 2023 Mar 1
EventCONCATENATE - HRI 2023 workshop: Social Robots Personalisation: at the crossroads between Engineering and Humanities. - Stockholm, Sweden
Duration: 2023 Mar 132023 Mar 13
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WorkshopCONCATENATE - HRI 2023 workshop: Social Robots Personalisation: at the crossroads between Engineering and Humanities.
Country/TerritorySweden
CityStockholm
Period2023/03/132023/03/13
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  • Law and Society
  • Other Humanities not elsewhere specified
  • Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
  • Other Engineering and Technologies not elsewhere specified

Free keywords

  • necrorobotics
  • resurrection
  • generative AI
  • HRI personalisation
  • social robotics
  • ethics of personalised robotics
  • ethics of personalised necrorobotics

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  • Necrorobotics: The Ethics of Resurrecting the Dead

    Larsson, S., 2024 Sept 11, The De Gruyter Handbook of Automated Futures. Fors, V., Berg, M. & Brodersen, M. (eds.). De Gruyter, p. 121-138 18 p.

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