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Robot Rights (The MIT Press) by David J. Gunkel is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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A provocative attempt to think about what was previously considered unthinkable: a serious philosophical case for the rights of robots.We are in the midst of a robot invasion, as devices of different configurations and capabilities slowly but surely come to take up increasingly important positions in everyday social reality—self-driving vehicles, recommendation algorithms, machine learning decision making systems, and social robots of various forms and functions. Although considerable attention has already been devotedto the subject of robots and responsibility, the question concerning the social status of these artifacts has been largely overlooked. In this book, David Gunkel offers a provocative attempt to think about what has been previously regarded as unthinkable: whether and to what extent robots and other technological artifacts of our own making can and should have any claim to moral and legal standing.In his analysis, Gunkel invokes the...ISBN : 9780262038621

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
David J. Gunkel
Publisher
The MIT Press
Published
2018
Language
EN
ISBN
9780262348560
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Engineering, Philosophy, Humanities
Rating
4.4 / 5 (10 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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