Voice in the Machine: Ethical Considerations for Language-Capable Robots: Parsing the promise of language-capable robots.

The article discusses various ethical considerations for language-capable robots. These concerns include trust, influence, identity, and privacy, and will require consideration by researchers, practitioners, and the general public. Various potential negative outcomes are discussed including robot control over human morals, a default identity perception grounded in white heteropatriarchy, gendered and racialized language-capable robots, and the potential for robots to be used as mobile surveillance tools.