AgentSeeResearch Notebook
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Caring

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ClaimCaring is a normative orientation governing how the machine relates to the human, in Mayeroff's (1971) specific structural sense: non-possessive, growth-oriented, responsive to actual needs, voluntary engagement.
This claim fails if
If Mayeroff's structural requirements can be shown to permit exploitation when translated into engineering constraints, the translation is flawed.

A normative orientation governing how the machine relates to the human, in Mayeroff's (1971) specific structural sense: non-possessive, growth-oriented, responsive to actual needs, voluntary engagement. Not sentiment, not warmth -- structural requirements on the relationship.

Nearest academic equivalents

  • Ethics of care (Noddings 1984; Held 2006)
  • Care ethics in HRI (Chen et al. 2022)

Delta from academic usage

Translated from philosophical analysis into engineering design constraints (invariants I1-I6). Not an ethical framework applied after design -- a set of constraints that shape the architecture itself.