ArticleMinds and machines2021
It's Friendship, Jim, but Not as We Know It: A Degrees-of-Friendship View of Human-Robot Friendships.
Article in Minds and machines, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Ascribing consciousness to artificial intelligence: human-AI interaction and its carry-over effects on human-human interaction.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- How AI Systems Can Be Blameworthy.Philosophia (Ramat-Gan, Israel) · 2024Article
- Children-Robot Friendship, Moral Agency, and Aristotelian Virtue Development.Frontiers in robotics and AI · 2022Article
- Whether to Save a Robot or a Human: On the Ethical and Legal Limits of Protections for Robots.Frontiers in robotics and AI · 2021Article
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Abstract
This article argues in defence of human-robot friendship. I begin by outlining the standard Aristotelian view of friendship, according to which there are certain necessary conditions which x must meet in order to 'be a friend'. I explain how the current literature typically uses this Aristotelian view to
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