Papers
8
Total Citations
142
H-Index
6
About
Micah Clark is a researcher whose work sits at a compelling intersection of robotics ethics, human-robot interaction, and formal logic. Best known for his foundational contributions to roboethics, Clark has pioneered an approach to engineering robots capable of reasoning *over* logical systems rather than merely *within* them — a distinction with profound implications for machine moral decision-making. His "Piagetian Roboethics via Category Theory" papers (2011, collectively citing Piagetian developmental theory alongside advanced mathematics) have garnered over 65 citations, establishing him as a distinctive voice in machine ethics. Clark's research extends naturally into the human side of the human-robot equation: his studies on trust, shared awareness, and social interaction in dangerous environments — including search-and-rescue contexts — address the psycho-physiological realities that shape how humans collaborate with autonomous systems. His provocatively titled "Red-Pill Robots Only, Please" (2011) reflects a consistent ethical commitment: robots, he argues, must be built for truth-telling, not deception. More recently, Clark has turned toward inductive logic and compromised perception, signaling an evolving research agenda. His body of work offers students a rigorous yet philosophically rich framework for thinking about the moral architecture of intelligent machines.
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- 1Piagetian Roboethics via Category Theory45 citations · 2011
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- 3Piagetian Roboethics via Category Theory Moving beyond Mere Formal Operations to Engineer Robots Whose Decisions Are Guaranteed to be Ethically Correct20 citations · 2011
- 4Shared awareness, autonomy and trust in human-robot teamwork19 citations · 2014
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- 6Red-Pill Robots Only, Please12 citations · 2011
- 7Argument-based inductive logics, with coverage of compromised perception5 citations · 2024
- 8The 2015 AAAI Fall Symposium Series Reports2 citations · 2016