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East-West Dialogues on the Ethics of Sex Robots
The purpose of this essay is to review and evaluate chapters in Fan and Cherry’s Sex Robots: Social Impact and the Future of Human Relations . In this...
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Sex Robots and Moral Problems: A Conditional Approach
Robots designed to mimic human sexual behaviour and interaction are known as “sex robots.” In the contemporary world, they have become more...
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Anticipating Sex Robots: A Critique of the Sociotechnical Vanguard Vision of Sex Robots as ‘Good Companions’
A number of companies have started to developed humanoid robots that (1) bear some physical resemblance to human beings, (2) have some ability to...
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Sex Robots Social Impact and the Future of Human Relations
This book provides cross-cultural ethical exploration of sex robots and their social impact. What are the implications of sex robots and related...
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Introduction: Sex, Ethics, and Philosophy
In this introductory chapter, David Boonin provides an overview of the substantive contributions that make up the remainder of the collection. The...
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Not Relational Enough? Towards an Eco-Relational Approach in Robot Ethics
With robots increasingly integrated into various areas of life, the question of relationships with them is gaining prominence. Are friendship and...
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Naughty Fantasies (With a New Postscript Including Sex Robots)
Corvino explores the question of whether it is wrong to deliberately indulge in sexual fantasies about activities that are themselves wrong, such as...
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Robotic Animism: The Ethics of Attributing Minds and Personality to Robots with Artificial Intelligence
In this chapter, I use the expression “robotic animism” to refer to the tendency that many people have to interact with robots as if the robots have...
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The Death of Isintu in Contemporary Technological Era: The Ethics of Sex Robots Among the Ndebele of Matabo
In industrial and social setting in Africa, machines and technological devices are gradually replacing human beings. Sex robots are replacing the...
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The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction
This chapter introduces the themes covered by the book. It provides an overview of the concept of artificial intelligenceArtificial intelligence (AI)...
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The Palgrave Handbook of Sexual Ethics
The Palgrave Handbook of Sexual Ethics is a comprehensive collection of recent research on the ethics of sexual behavior, representing a wide range of...
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The Moral Standing of Social Robots: Untapped Insights from Africa
This paper presents an African relational view of social robots’ moral standing which draws on the philosophy of ubuntu (humanness). The...
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What Kinds of Use of Sex Robots Can Be Morally Allowed? A Confucian Perspective
Generally speaking, sex robots are artificial entities designed to be humanlike in appearance and behavior, and which are primarily used for sexual...
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Machine Ethics: Do Androids Dream of Being Good People?
Is ethics a computable function? Can machines learn ethics like humans do? If teaching consists in no more than programming, training,...
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To Each Technology Its Own Ethics: The Problem of Ethical Proliferation
Ethics plays a key role in the normative analysis of the impacts of technology. We know that computers in general and the processing of data, the use...
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Nudge Nudge, Wink Wink: Sex Robots as Social Influencers
It is likely that sex robots will exist in the near future, making the effect they might have on human relationships a pressing concern. In this...
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Meaning in Life in AI Ethics—Some Trends and Perspectives
In this paper, we discuss the relation between recent philosophical discussions about meaning in life (from authors like Susan Wolf, Thaddeus Metz,...
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Sex Robots, Marriage, Health, Procreation, and Human Image
This essay reconstructs and explores the fundamental premises of the arguments in section two of Sex Robots: Their Social Impact and the Future of...
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Practical Implications of Different Theoretical Approaches to AI Ethics
Ethics are moral principles that govern a person’s behaviour or the conduct of an activity.