Open Roboethics Institute
What is ORI
Open Roboethics Institute (ORI) is a Canadian nonprofit that gathers communities of interdisciplinary thinkers and doers to engage with pressing social and ethical implications of robotics and AI technologies. Our goal is to collaborate with partner organizations and build learning communities based on principles of openness, inclusivity, and participation. Then, we develop tools and resources to help members examine robotics and AI systems, understand their implications, and anticipate their various harms and mitigation strategies for their communities. Towards this goal, ORI is a community builder and resource creator.
What Do We Do
Community Building
We create accessible and open spaces with two primary goals which include 1) providing hands-on training, workshops, and lectures on AI and robot ethics that are accessible to diverse audiences, 2) creating spaces for community members to connect with others in an effort to investigate the ethics of robotics and AI.
Resources
We deliver research and community-informed resources to investigate ethical dimensions of AI and robotics. The entirety of our research and resources are shared openly and for free. ORI has created the Foresight into AI Ethics (FAIE) and Learning Hub toolkits.
AI Ethics Toolkit
Our toolkit provides a systematic method to uncover key ethical issues specific to your data-driven AI project so as to better anticipate and mitigate the risks.
Learning hub guide
The ORI learning hub guide provides you to starter kit including a reading list and tips to start a hub at your community to discuss ethical issues about robots and AI.
Blog
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Should an autonomous car be able to drive around by itself?
A couple of months ago, we asked our readers whether a child under the
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Will you miss driving your non-autonomous car?
A few weeks ago, one of our readers, Javier Lopez, submitted a number
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How should an autonomous car optimize crashes?
A couple of months ago Dr. Patrick Lin, director of the Ethics + Emerging
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Should ownership influence decision making of a care robot?
For the past few months, the Open Roboethics initiative have been exploring the
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Results: If a death by an autonomous car is unavoidable, who should die?
Life and death decisions make interesting thought experiments. When you throw an autonomous