The Challenges and Benefits of Stewarding Disruptive Technology

Abstract

Robotic technologies are increasingly becoming a core feature of many care services. Yet we lack high quality evidence about the most effective ways to steward these technologies. This is problematic because a number of ethical concerns have been raised with respect to these disruptive technologies. This chapter examines the use of robots in different care relationships in Australia and New Zealand, particularly in terms of the ethical implications of these technologies. Our findings demonstrate there are concerns relating to a lack of definitional clarity surrounding these technologies and also a range of different ethical challenges associated with their use. We then go on to argue that th..