It took just one sentence to turn refusal into compliance.” That was the disturbing conclusion of a staged experiment ...

Ethical development in robotics and artificial intelligence is often debated, and tends to centre on the vital need to avoid automating existing societal biases when it comes to ethnicity, gender, ...

In a recent viral video the founder and CEO of EngineAI stood in front of a T800 humanoid robot in protective gear and … took ...

An autonomous security robot and a robo-dog will be joining the New York Police Department, authorities announced. These technologies may make people grow wary. Philosophy professor Ryan Jenkins ...

Sara Wenger. Photo provided by Sara Wenger/courtesy Virginia Tech. Is it possible to have a loving relationship with a robot? Is a machine capable of giving consent? And how do gender dynamics play ...

Asimov's 3 laws of robotics were theoretical. These new 24 laws of robots and AI are very real ... but it's unclear how ...

Ahmed Amer is an associate professor of computer engineering at Santa Clara University and a Faculty Scholar of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are his own. Note: Some time ago, Amazon ...

Robots and artificial intelligence (AI) are expected to play a key role in nursing practice in the future. In this regard, researchers from Japan ask whether intelligent machines can replace humans as ...

When I went on tour for my book On Belonging, I was often asked a simple but profoundly important question: “What can I do to build belonging in my community?” The answer, I’d explain, isn’t ...