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Should Robots Have Rights? With Rob Sparrow
Season 1
Episode 27
Published 5 years, 9 months ago
Description
Is it wrong to destroy an AI if it can have a conversation with a human being? If a robot expresses suffering is it wrong to torture it? Should we mourn the death of a robot lover?
Sparrow, R. 2004. The Turing triage test. Ethics and Information Technology 6(4): 203-213.
Sparrow, R. 2007. Killer robots. Journal of Applied Philosophy 24(1): 62-77, March.
Sparrow, R. 2020. Virtue and vice in our relationships with robots: Is there an asymmetry and how might it be explained? International Journal of Social Robotics