Socially Cognizant Robotics for a Technology Enhanced Society

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.18303v1
• Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2023 17:53:02 GMT
• Title: Socially Cognizant Robotics for a Technology Enhanced Society
• Authors: Kristin J. Dana, Clinton Andrews, Kostas Bekris, Jacob Feldman, Matthew Stone, Pernille Hemmer, Aaron Mazzeo, Hal Salzman, Jingang Yi
• Abstract summary: We advocate an interdisciplinary approach, socially cognizant robotics, which synthesizes technical and social science methods. We argue that this approach follows from the need to empower stakeholder participation in shaping AI-driven robot behavior. We develop best practices for socially cognizant robot design that balance traditional technology-based metrics with critically important, albeit challenging, metrics.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Emerging applications of robotics, and concerns about their impact, require the research community to put human-centric objectives front-and-center. To meet this challenge, we advocate an interdisciplinary approach, socially cognizant robotics, which synthesizes technical and social science methods. We argue that this approach follows from the need to empower stakeholder participation (from synchronous human feedback to asynchronous societal assessment) in shaping AI-driven robot behavior at all levels, and leads to a range of novel research perspectives and problems both for improving robots' interactions with individuals and impacts on society. Drawing on these arguments, we develop best practices for socially cognizant robot design that balance traditional technology-based metrics (e.g. efficiency, precision and accuracy) with critically important, albeit challenging to measure, human and society-based metrics.

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