Is It Possible That Robots Will Not One Day Become Persons?
That robots might become persons is increasingly explored in popular fiction and films and is receiving growing academic analysis. Here, I ask what would be necessary for robots not to become persons at some point. After examining the meanings of "robots" and "persons," I discuss...
| Published in: | Zygon |
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| Subtitles: | "AI Relationality and Personhood" |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2023
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| In: |
Zygon
Year: 2023, Volume: 58, Issue: 4, Pages: 1062-1075 |
| Further subjects: | B
carbon chauvinism
B Panpsychism B Development B Evolution B Robots B Personhood |
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| Summary: | That robots might become persons is increasingly explored in popular fiction and films and is receiving growing academic analysis. Here, I ask what would be necessary for robots not to become persons at some point. After examining the meanings of "robots" and "persons," I discuss whether robots might not become persons from a range of perspectives: evolution (which has led over time from species that do not exhibit personhood to species that do), development (personhood is something into which each of us grows), chemistry (must persons be carbon-based and must robots be non-carbon-based?), history (we now consider more entities to be persons than was once the case), and theology (are humans privileged over the rest of creation, and how relevant is panpsychism?). I end by considering some of the implications if/once robots do become persons. |
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| Item Description: | With Fraser Watts and Marius Dorobantu, "The Relational Turn in Understanding Personhood: Psychological, Theological, and Computational Perspectives"; William F. Clocksin, "Guidelines for Computational Modeling of Friendship"; Michael J. Reiss, "Is It Possible That Robots Will Not One Day Become Persons?"; and Léon Turner, "Will We Know Them When We Meet Them? Human Cyborg and Non-Human Personhood." |
| ISSN: | 1467-9744 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/zygo.12918 |