How to Include Artificial Bodies as Citizens
This essay ponders on the thorny issue of including artificial beings under the category of "citizen." The increasing humanization of the artificial being, it suggests, prevents us from seeing and treating the machine as a being. But if the humanoid robot performs all the functions of a hu...
| Subtitles: | "Artificial Intelligence and Ethnic, Religious, and Gender-Based Discrimination" |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cogitatio Press
2024
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| In: |
Social Inclusion
Year: 2024, Volume: 12, Pages: 1-5 |
| Further subjects: | B
Citizenship
B humanoid robots B Moral Standing B artificial beings B Personhood |
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| Summary: | This essay ponders on the thorny issue of including artificial beings under the category of "citizen." The increasing humanization of the artificial being, it suggests, prevents us from seeing and treating the machine as a being. But if the humanoid robot performs all the functions of a human being, and acquires cultural traits such as emotional intelligence, rational thinking, or altruism, then on what grounds do we deny it the same status as a human person? Conversely, as more and more humans are cyborged, through transplants, implants, and prostheses, resulting in an erasure of their "core" humanity, then what is the difference between such a cyborged human with human rights and an artificial being? |
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| ISSN: | 2183-2803 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Social Inclusion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.17645/si.8337 |