How should we conceive of social robots? Some sceptics think they are little more than tools and should be treated as such. Some are more bullish on their potential to attain full moral status. Is there some middle ground? In this episode, I talk to Paula Sweeney about this possibility. Paula defends a position she calls 'fictional dualism' about social robots. This allows us to relate to social robots in creative, human-like ways, without necessarily ascribing them moral status or rights. Paula is a philosopher based in the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. She has a background in the philosophy of language (which we talk about a bit) but has recently turned her attentio n to applied ethics of technology. She is currently writing a book about social robots.
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TITE 10 - Bonus Episode: Audience Q and A
TITE 9 - Human-Technology Futures
TITE 8 - Machines as Colleagues, Friends and Lovers
TITE 7 - Can Machines be Moral Patients?
TITE 6 - Moral Agency in Machines
TITE 5 - Technology and Responsibility Gaps
TITE 4 - Behaviour Change and Control
TITE 3 - Value Alignment and the Control Problem
TITE 2: The Methods of Technology Ethics
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107 - Will Large Language Models disrupt healthcare?
106 - Why GPT and other LLMs (probably) aren't sentient
105 - GPT: Higher Education's Jurassic Park Moment?
104 - What will be the economic impact of GPT?
103 - GPT: How worried should we be?
101 - Pistols, Pills, Pork and Ploughs: How Technology Changes Morality
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