Bioethics, Moral Education, and the Potential Relationship between Humans and robotics in the Future : Utilizing the motives of Avatar and Surrogates

Abstract

This paper aims to explore the potential relationship between humans and AI robotics and to suggest its challenge to the moral education of bioethics. To understand the advance of new technologies and AI robotics, I would utilize the motives of Avatar and Surrogates. In the ontological and existential view, the former gives us another task to define AI robots as independent species and the latter enables us to reflect the understanding of human dignity and the true human face to face. In the prescriptive and normative view, it is arguable whether or not both are justified in terms of the enhancement and improvement of human nature. At that point, the real and basic issue in the moral education of bioethics related to technology in future is not the problem of using machine in life, but the perspective of potential relationship between humans and AI robotics. In Korea, the curriculum of moral education is based on the conception of relationship to oneself, to others, to society-community, and to nature-transcendence. It is time to deal with the perspective of any new relationship in the moral education of bioethics to establish the critical foundation by a dialogue procedure in which students discuss and agree in complicated bioethical issues and dilemmas.