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NECROROBOTICS : The Ethics of Personalised Resurrection

Larsson, Stefan LU (2023) CONCATENATE - HRI 2023 workshop: Social Robots Personalisation: at the crossroads between Engineering and Humanities. p.1-4
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.
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necrorobotics, resurrection, generative AI, HRI personalisation, social robotics, ethics of personalised robotics, ethics of personalised necrorobotics
pages
4 pages
conference name
CONCATENATE - HRI 2023 workshop: Social Robots Personalisation: at the crossroads between Engineering and Humanities.
conference location
Stockholm, Sweden
conference dates
2023-03-13 - 2023-03-13
project
Lund University AI Research
AI Transparency and Consumer Trust
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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English
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2023-03-02 10:48:41
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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.}},
  author       = {{Larsson, Stefan}},
  keywords     = {{necrorobotics; resurrection; generative AI; HRI personalisation; social robotics; ethics of personalised robotics; ethics of personalised necrorobotics}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  month        = {{03}},
  pages        = {{1--4}},
  title        = {{NECROROBOTICS : The Ethics of Personalised Resurrection}},
  url          = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/139327848/Larsson_1_March_2023_NECROROBOTICS_The_Ethics_of_Personalised_Resurrection.pdf}},
  year         = {{2023}},
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