Question

Was the behavior of companies (including that of their former CEOs and Directors) ethical in the creation of robot police hardware and software?

analyze this question using Bagley’s Ethical Leader’s Decision Tree by Constance E. Bagley ( 2003).

Answer 1

Examination of robot police drive utilizing Michael Josephson's Core Values Model

1.         Recognize the stakeholders. That is, who are the potential gainers and failures in the different choices that may be made here?

2.         Identify a few likely or sensible choices that could be made.

3.         Consider which partners pick up or lose with every choice.

4.         Determine which choice fulfills the best number of center esteems.

5.         If there is no choice that fulfills the best number of center esteems, endeavor to figure out which choice conveys the best great to the different partners.

The stakeholders in the case are the robot companies, law enforcement, and the citizens. All stakeholders can either be the gainer or loser base on their decisions. There are two likely decisions that can be made. One is to use the robot to fight crime; the other is to ban robot creation. In the first decision, all stakeholder will gain from implanting robot’s crime fighting. In the second decision, the citizen will gain while the robot companies and law enforcements will lose. The decision that satisfies the greatest core values identified in Josephson Institute of Ethics (i.e., trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, and citizenship (Mayer et al., 2012) is to implement robot’s crime fighting. Implementing a robot’s crime fighting force will satisfies the greatest core values and help the police force, and its citizen.