Abstract
Social Robotics is one of the most innovative fields in robotics research. However, the current struggle for an adequate definition of “social robots” leads, a.o., to dif-ferent interpretations for the status of this innovativeness. With respect to the re-cently emerging idea of a Digital Humanism, these controversies are of im¬portance since the co-creation of social relations between humans and robots di¬rectly affects the concept of human-computer co-evolution; and thus the very core of (digital) humanism. Therefore, in this paper we reconstruct important related dis¬course threads of Robophilosophy conference contributions since 2014 with a partic¬ular focus on understanding humanity. Based on this, we confront these system¬atic sci-entific insights with the Vienna Manifesto on Digital Huma¬nism and re¬veal its shortcomings in providing a consistent as well as robust con¬cep¬tual basis for its own humanistic claims (which we nevertheless support from a more general per-spective). By emphasizing inconsistencies in the mani¬festo, we argue that any kind of humanism, and especially the digital one, requires a careful and methodi¬cally reflected conceptual basis in order to not end up fueling systemic problems that the manifesto itself accuses for having made the system failing.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Social Robots in Social Institutions |
| Subtitle of host publication | Proceedings of Robophilosophy 2022 |
| Publisher | IOS Press |
| Pages | 463-472 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-64368-375-1 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-64368-374-4 |
| Publication status | Published - Jan 2023 |
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 102013 Human-computer interaction