It's Friendship, Jim, but Not as We Know It: A Degrees-of-Friendship View of Human-Robot Friendships
| Autor: | Helen Ryland |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Philosophy of mind
Philosophy of science Social robot Exploit media_common.quotation_subject Human–robot friendship Friendship 05 social sciences 06 humanities and the arts Social robots 0603 philosophy ethics and religion Object (philosophy) 050105 experimental psychology Human–robot interaction Article Epistemology Robophilosophy Philosophy Artificial Intelligence 060302 philosophy Robot 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Sociology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Minds and Machines |
| ISSN: | 0924-6495 |
| Popis: | This article argues in defence of human–robot friendship. I begin by outlining the standard Aristotelian view of friendship, according to which there are certain necessary conditions which x must meet in order to ‘be a friend’. I explain how the current literature typically uses this Aristotelian view to object to human–robot friendships on theoretical and ethical grounds. Theoretically, a robot cannot be our friend because it cannot meet the requisite necessary conditions for friendship. Ethically, human–robot friendships are wrong because they are deceptive (the robot does not actually meet the conditions for being a friend), and could also make it more likely that we will favour ‘perfect’ robots, and disrespect, exploit, or exclude other human beings. To argue against the above position, I begin by outlining and assessing current attempts to reject the theoretical argument—that we cannot befriend robots. I argue that the current attempts are problematic, and do little to support the claim that we can be friends with robots now (rather than in some future time). I then use the standard Aristotelian view as a touchstone to develop a new degrees-of-friendship view. On my view, it is theoretically possible for humans to have some degree of friendship with social robots now. I explain how my view avoids ethical concerns about human–robot friendships being deceptive, and/or leading to the disrespect, exploitation, or exclusion of other human beings. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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