Trustworthiness and Well-Being: The Ethical, Legal, and Social Challenge of Robotic Assistance

AbstractIf a technology lacks social acceptance, it cannot realize dissemination into society. The chapter thus illuminates the ethical, legal, and social implications of robotic assistance in care and daily life. It outlines a conceptual framework and identifies patterns of trust in human–robot interaction. The analysis relates trust in robotic assistance and its anticipated use to open-mindedness toward technical innovation and reports evidence that this self-image unfolds its psychological impact on accepting robotic assistance through the imagined well-being that scenarios of future human–robot interaction evoke in people today. All findings come from the population survey of the Bremen AI Delphi study.