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Robots and the Moral Circle Debate by Mihaela is a document available to read on EtoBox.

This document presents and defends the theory of "ethical behaviourism", which argues that robots can have significant moral status if they are roughly equivalent in performance to other entities that are commonly agreed to have moral status, such as humans. The author uses the example of Sophia the robot to illustrate this debate. While some argue her human-like appearance is not enough to warrant moral status on its own, the author claims internal functioning does not matter - only outward performance and

Author

Mihaela

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EN