Can Humans and Robots be Friends?

• Authors: Mulvey Ben
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This essay engages the question whether it makes sense to talk about friendship between human beings and robots. Encountering the question of human and robot friendship, many might initially dismiss the possibility of such relationships out of hand. But such dismissals, it seems, based solely on the basis of species membership, are nothing more than unjustifiable speciesism. Mitias’s analysis of friendship is helpful, but makes the conditions for friendship demanding. Nevertheless, his framework implies that human and robot friendships are possible.

Keywords

EN

Aristotle; Michael H. Mitias; friendship; robot; artificial intelligence; sexbot

• Publisher: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk; Fundacja Filozofia Na Rzecz Dialogu
• Journal: Dialogue and Universalism
• Year: 2018
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 49-64

Contributors

author

Mulvey Ben

• Nova Southeastern University, 3301 College Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33314 USA.