The enduring innovations in artificial intelligence and robotics offer the promised capacity of computer consciousness, sentience and rationality. The development of these advanced technologies have been considered to merit rights, however these can ...
This paper critically assesses John Danaher's 'ethical behaviourism', a theory on how the moral status of robots should be determined. The basic idea of this theory is that a robot's moral status is determined decisively on the basis of its observabl...
Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics : CQ : the international journal of healthcare ethics committees
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There is growing interest in machine ethics in the question of whether and under what circumstances an artificial intelligence would deserve moral consideration. This paper explores a particular type of moral status that the author terms psychologica...
Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics : CQ : the international journal of healthcare ethics committees
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The suggestion has been made that future advanced artificial intelligence (AI) that passes some consciousness-related criteria should be treated as having moral status, and therefore, humans would have an ethical obligation to consider its well-being...
Assuming robots of the future will be far more advanced than their present-day forebears, it is not premature to ask what they will have to be like in order to have moral status. This article first examines criteria for moral status, criticizing seve...
Can machines be conscious and what would be the ethical implications? This article gives an overview of current robotics approaches toward machine consciousness and considers factors that hamper an understanding of machine consciousness. After addres...