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A critical moment in robotics and AI history?

Un moment critique dans l'histoire de la robotique et de l'IA?

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Technological advances allow a progressive rapprochement between humans and robots. These new forms of interactions raise both ambitions and critical concerns converging towards the development of what is called “human-centred robotics” (HCR). The fundamental principle of HCR relies on placing human at the center of robotic systems development in order to design robots that best serves human interests. This presentation aims to report on the first results of a study on human-centred robotics. This study, conducted with a sociology of scientific knowledge perspective, is based on a literature review work and on a corpus of twenty interviews conducted with roboticists and AI researchers. In first place, a brief genealogy of this humanistic robotics will be proposed, starting from Vitruvian philosophy, going towards the Renaissance, then to the Human-Centred Design movement emerging during the 1950s and leading to the emergence of the concept of human-centred robotics in the 1990s. Cultural and philosophical origins sometimes explicitly referenced by current authors. Secondly, will be outlined, in a time coinciding with deep learning revolution and new hopes and hype it brings, the role played by the series of public warnings from prestigious commentators criticizing and portraying AI as an existential threat in the sudden and significant rise of AI ethics. In this perspective, Human-Centred AI/robotics, possibly on its way to becoming one of the most important AI/robotics paradigms of the 2020s, could be seen as a strategy aiming to reassuring public opinion and fighting against technocentric ideologies to prevent the critical advent of a potential 3rd social winter of AI.

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Sociologie
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hal-04123810 , version 1 (09-06-2023)

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David Rodriguez. A critical moment in robotics and AI history?: A sociological regard on human-centred robotics. Icam International Research Days (2IRD) 2023, Institut Catholique des Arts et Métiers (ICAM); IQS Barcelona, Jun 2023, Toulouse, France. ⟨hal-04123810⟩
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