Assignment #6 - Sharing and Reflecting on Two Research Sources

My research topic is about the promise and perils of technology advancing now and in the future. I will be conducting research on is the negative effect that creating robots already does have on us in today's society and how it will affect us in the future as well.

The authors of my first source are Michael Anderson and Susan Leigh Anderson. The title is Robot Be Good and it's a periodical from the Scientific American. I found this source using EBSCOhost. The relevant information that this source provides is ethical issues that robots face. Will robots be able to make ethical decisions is the question raised in this article. The authors say eventually they will but I don't think it's enough for working in an environment with other human beings. The argument that the authors are saying is that through research and more development of robots, they will be able to make robots behavior more acceptable to humans. This gives my paper an optimistic view to the fact that robots may not be hurting us that much. I chose this source because it dealt with a job working with humans and actually talking to them. A regular job that any human is capable of doing and I thought having this example would best fit my paper.

The second source I chose is by Pamela J. Hinds, Teresa L. Roberts, and Hank Jones. The title is Whose Job Is It Anyway? A Study of Human-Robot Interaction in a Collaborative Task. This article is from an academic journal called Human-Computer Interaction. I found this source on Academic Search Complete a.k.a. EBSCOhost. The information in this article is relevant because when we think about jobs and the future of robots taking over, we have to think how the interaction would be before they actually start creating these robots. We have to think about what's comfortable for the worker. The argument that is in this article is that it is possible for robots to work with humans just as long as the creators create a machine that's acceptable to humans. What this adds to my paper is proof that this hurts jobs for humans because once again humans are able to perform such tasks. It just makes it easier because a human can tell a robot what to do and it will do it whereas some humans don't like to have someone in charge of them telling them what to do.