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The case for an ethical black box

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This paper proposes that robots and autonomous systems should be equipped with the equivalent of a Flight Data Recorder to continuously record sensor and relevant internal status data. We call this an ethical black box. We argue that an ethical black box will be critical to the process of discovering why and how a robot caused an accident, and thus an essential part of establishing accountability and responsibility. We also argue that without the transparency a↵orded by an ethical black box, robots and autonomous systems are unlikely to win public trust.
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Published
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Peer reviewed

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10.1007/978-3-319-64107-2_21

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University of Oxford
Oxford college:
St Cross College
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Publisher:
Springer, Cham
Host title:
TAROS 2017: Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems
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Towards Autonomous Robotics Systems 2017 More from this journal
Volume:
10454
Pages:
262-273
Series:
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publication date:
2017-07-20
Acceptance date:
2017-03-25
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0302-9743
ISBN:
9783319641065


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