中国机器人伦理初探:一个跨文化的视角

On Chinese Roboethics from an Intercultural Perspective

随着养老等服务型机器人逐步进入人类的生活空间、扮演起本该属于人的角色,"人机共存协作社会"不再是纯粹的未来学概念。出于不同的宗教传统、对人的不同理解等原因,日本和欧美社会逐渐形成了差异明显的机器人伦理文化。而在中国,由于近现代机器人叙事传统的缺失,具有自身特色机器人文化还未形成。而中国社会也需要构建自己的机器人伦理;同时,中国的部分传统伦理观有望为世界机器人伦理探讨带来启发,发出自己的声音。本文抛砖引玉,从跨文化的角度为中国机器人伦理探讨指出三个研究重点,期待今后有进一步研究。

With the introduction of service robots(for instance the robots for elderly care)into daily life,the prospectus of the society for Human-Robot-Co-existence will be within sight.There are long,though diverging,traditions both in Japan and Europe and America of the discussion of ethics in relation to the treatment of the machinery and eventually robots.These are mainly ascribed to the varying traditions of religion and of the intellectual thinking on the concept of human and humanhood.In China,however,the emerging field of robot ethics is rather new,not to mention the notion of robot culture,due to the fact there lacks a tradition of robot narratives.The paper aims to point out three directions of discussion in the future study of robot ethics in the Chinese context.It is highly necessary for Chinese society to deal with ethical issues arising in connection with uses of robots,as,on the one hand,China is already far behind in robot ethics,and on the other hand,certain beliefs of Chinese traditional ethics will surely provide an intercultural perspective in ethical inquires on robots.This study,though preliminary,is expected to induce others to come forward with valuable contributes.