CNR 2014: Lectures: Vít Bohal (CZE): Law and Utility: The Ethics of the Golem

Vít Bohal is an MA student at Charles University Critical Cultural Theory department. He is a member of the Prague-based Diffractions Lecture Series which focuses on the topics of accelerationism, geophilosophy, and critical theory.

Vit has recently been working on untangling the conspiracy webs of David Icke, and exploring the vectors of a coming futurity.

Law and Utility: The Ethics of the Golem
The ethical framework of the use of robots is, much like in the myth of the Prague Golem, stretched between an axiomatic ethics juxtaposed against a heuristic ethics of utility.

The discourses pertaining to the ethical dimension of robotics are varied in their conclusions, but they inevitably draw on a dichotomy of prudence opposed to a politics of liberation. In the words of Nick Bostrom, "do we retard or accelerate?"

The Promethean project of a superintelligent consciousness working as a teleological robot for the betterment of mankind is tempting, but is it worth the risk? Are there in fact any ethical the limits to the development of autonomous robots and, if so, where does humanity draw the line?

The future development of robotic AMAs (Autonomous Moral Agents) promise to reinvigorate the human's perennial question of sorting the right from the wrong; only now this debate is leaving the realm of armchair philosophy and becoming a concrete component in the construction of humanity's future.

Link:
Diffractions Lecture Series

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[source: Vive Les Robots!]

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Vít Bohal is an MA student at Charles University Critical Cultural Theory department.

Law and Utility: The Ethics of the Golem by Vít Bohal
Vít Bohal will present his lecture "Law and Utility: The Ethics of the Golem" at Cafe Neu Romance on the 28 November 2014 at the Balling Hall of NTK.

Balling Hall, NTK
Technická 6
16080 Prague.