NECROROBOTICS: The Ethics of Personalised Resurrection

Stefan Larsson

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 language	English
Pages	1-4
Number of pages	4
Publication status	Accepted/In press - 2023 Mar 1
Event	CONCATENATE - HRI 2023 workshop: Social Robots Personalisation: at the crossroads between Engineering and Humanities. - Stockholm, Sweden Duration: 2023 Mar 13 → 2023 Mar 13 https://sites.google.com/view/concatenate-hri/home?pli=1

Workshop

Workshop	CONCATENATE - HRI 2023 workshop: Social Robots Personalisation: at the crossroads between Engineering and Humanities.
Country/Territory	Sweden
City	Stockholm
Period	2023/03/13 → 2023/03/13
Internet address	https://sites.google.com/view/concatenate-hri/home?pli=1

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Law and Society
Other Humanities not elsewhere specified
Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
Other Engineering and Technologies not elsewhere specified

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

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AI Transparency and Consumer Trust

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Fairness in social robotics: gender as a case study for developing a multidisciplinary framework for social robotics and socio-legal studies of AI

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Vad är mänskligt i AI?

SR Godmorgon världen: Håll minnet av de döda vid liv - med AI

UR, Sverige forskar: Digitalt liv efter döden

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