ROBOTICS AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI): RAISING SOME MORAL QUESTIONS IN NIGERIAN INSTITUTIONS
Artificial Intelligence and robotics have taken the center stage in the world thereby creating irreplaceable values to humanity. Nevertheless; much attention has been drawn to their values towards making the world a better place and less attention to the moral challenges emanating from the abuse of robotics and Artificial Intelligence. Beyond the obvious appreciable values in their use, this paper bears much concern on the disheartening effects of the ethical abuse of Artificial Intelligence and robotics both from the creator’s end and the users’ end especially in Nigeria. Using expository and analytic methods this paper exposes and analysis the values, use and abuses of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics in Nigerian institutions. Artificial Intelligence and robotics have been of great value in institutions such as; finance, politics, military, education, communication/media, cyber security, etc. Unfortunately, the ethical implications on the abuses of Artificial Intelligence and robotics have been so devastating yet not much questions have been raised beyond the alarms by victims. Thus this paper not only raises moral questions on the abuse of Artificial Intelligence and robotics, it calls for more attention and consciousness of the society to this menace. Also, this paper encourages experts in this field to deepen studies on guides against such abuses and the judiciary to enact comprehensive laws to this effect.
Keywords: artificial, institutions, intelligence, moral, nigerian, questions, raising, robotics