Examining ethical challenges in human–robot interaction using a Levinasian framework

This paper develops a Levinasian framework for addressing the challenge of human-centric discourse struggling to articulate responsibility and justice for hybrid human–robot assemblages. Against suggestions to adopt an ethical pluralism that balances multiple principles and perspectives, I argue that Levinas’s notion of infinite, asymmetrical responsibility to the Other offers a more productive lens for diagnosing how human–robot interaction can both expose and reproduce systemic vulnerabilities