Designing People to Serve

In Patrick Lin, Keith Abney & George A. Bekey, Robot Ethics: The Ethical and Social Implications of Robotics. MIT Press (2011)
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Abstract

I argue that, contrary to intuition, it would be both possible and permissible to design people - whether artificial or organic - who by their nature desire to do tasks we find unpleasant.

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Steve Petersen
Niagara University

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