Robots and people with dementia: Unintended consequences and moral hazard

被引:15
作者
O'Brolchain, Fiachra [1 ]
机构
[1] Dublin City Univ, Dublin, Ireland
关键词
Dementia care; robots; ethical climate; virtue ethics; ELDER ABUSE; PREVALENCE; NEGLECT;
D O I
10.1177/0969733017742960
中图分类号
B82 [伦理学(道德学)];
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摘要
The use of social robots in elder care is entering the mainstream as robots become more sophisticated and populations age. While there are many potential benefits to the use of social robots in care for the older people, there are ethical challenges as well. This article focuses on the societal consequences of the adoption of social robots in care for people with dementia. Making extensive use of Alasdair MacIntyre's Dependent Rational Animals to discuss issues of unintended consequences and moral hazard, we contend that in choosing to avoid the vulnerability and dependency of human existence, a society blinds itself from the animal reality of humankind. The consequence of this is that a flourishing society, in which each individual is helped to develop the virtues essential to her flourishing, becomes harder to achieve.
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