Robot Ethics
We often talk about robot ethics as a set of rules for machines, but beneath the surface, it's a profound reflection of our own human nature. The way we design, interact with, and even blame artificial intelligence reveals our deepest values and biases. Consider how easily we anthropomorphize a smart speaker, or the quiet discomfort when a facial recognition system misidentifies someone based on its training data. Mark Coeckelbergh shows that the real ethical challenge isn't about what robots might do to us, but what we are building into them, and by extension, into our future society. This isn't a distant philosophical debate; it's a daily negotiation of responsibility, empathy, and the kind of world we are actively creating, one algorithm at a time.