CAN HUMANS AND ROBOTS BE FRIENDS?
CAN HUMANS AND ROBOTS BE FRIENDS?
Author(s): Ben MulveySubject(s): Social Philosophy, Special Branches of Philosophy
Published by: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk i Fundacja Filozofia na Rzecz Dialogu
Keywords: Aristotle; Michael H. Mitias; friendship; robot; artificial intelligence; sexbot
Summary/Abstract: This essay engages the question whether it makes sense to talk about friendship between human beings and robots. Encountering the question of human and robot friendship, many might initially dismiss the possibility of such relationships out of hand. But such dismissals, it seems, based solely on the basis of species membership, are nothing more than unjustifiable speciesism. Mitias’s analysis of friendship is helpful, but makes the conditions for friendship demanding. Nevertheless, his framework implies that human and robot friendships are possible.
Journal: Dialogue and Universalism
- Issue Year: 2018
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 49-64
- Page Count: 16
- Language: English
- Content File-PDF
