A Code of Ethics for Social Cooperative Robots

The article addresses the interaction between Robots supported by Artificial Intelligence and interacting with each other for collaborative and social purposes and proposes the establishment of a code of ethics also for those contexts in which the intersubjective relationship is only between Machines and does not involve interaction with Humans. This proposal poses the problem of which ethics to apply and how to program robots to learn a behavior that makes possible a social interaction between Machines that is respectful of tasks, rights, and duties. The first dilemma regards whether it is legitimate to apply human ethics to a society of machines alone. This scenario would result in a society of Machines completely modeled on human society, which offers advantageous, but also problematic sides. For the second aspect, the investigation is a true propaedeutic to the programming and engineering design in the construction of Machines predisposed to Ethical Acting. In this case, the results of the survey will be able to support and guide the technology in the design of the Machine, highlighting which elements to give absolute priority to create a device that contains, in nuce, the predisposition to Ethical Acting.