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The 'robot rights' debate, and its related question of 'robot responsibility', invokes some of the most polarized positions in AI ethics. While some advocate for granting robots rights on a par with human beings, others, in a stark…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Abeba Birhane , Jelle van Dijk

Contemporary debates in AI ethics increasingly foreground the prospective moral status of artificial intelligence and the possibility of extending moral or legal rights to artificial agents. While such discussions raise substantive…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Rahulrajan Karthikeyan , Moses Boudourides

Whether to give rights to artificial intelligence (AI) and robots has been a sensitive topic since the European Parliament proposed advanced robots could be granted "electronic personalities." Numerous scholars who favor or disfavor its…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Gabriel Lima , Changyeon Kim , Seungho Ryu , Chihyung Jeon , Meeyoung Cha

Contemporary robots are increasingly mimicking human social behaviours to facilitate interaction, such as smiling to signal approachability, or hesitating before taking an action to allow people time to react. Such techniques can activate a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-10 James M. Berzuk , Lauren Corcoran , Brannen McKenzie-Lefurgey , Katie Szilagyi , James E. Young

It is very important to adhere strictly to ethical and social influences when delivering most of our life to artificial intelligence systems. With industry 4.0, the internet of things, data analysis and automation have begun to be of great…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Tuncay Yigit , Utku Kose , Nilgun Sengoz

Ethicists, policy-makers, and the general public have questioned whether artificial entities such as robots warrant rights or other forms of moral consideration. There is little synthesis of the research on this topic so far. We identify…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Jamie Harris , Jacy Reese Anthis

Concerns over the risks associated with advances in Artificial Intelligence have prompted calls for greater efforts toward robust and beneficial AI, including machine ethics. Recently, roboticists have responded by initiating the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-06-09 Dieter Vanderelst , Alan Winfield

Taking the stance that artificially conscious agents should be given human-like rights, in this paper we attempt to define consciousness, aggregate existing universal human rights, analyze robotic laws with roots in both reality and science…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Markian Hromiak

Artificial intelligence (AI) was initially developed as an implicit moral agent to solve simple and clearly defined tasks where all options are predictable. However, it is now part of our daily life powering cell phones, cameras, watches,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Mohamed Akrout , Robert Steinbauer

Social robotics development for the practice of care and European prospects to incorporate these AI-based systems in institutional healthcare contexts call for an urgent ethical reflection to (re)configurate our practical life according to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Júlia Pareto Boada , Begoña Román Maestre , Carme Torras

Advances in Artificial Intelligence and robotics are currently questioning theethical framework of their applications to deal with potential drifts, as well as the way inwhich these algorithms learn because they will have a strong impact on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Alexandre Pitti

This commentary traces contemporary discourses on the relationship between artificial intelligence and labour and explains why these principles must be comprehensive in their approach to labour and AI. First, the commentary asserts that…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Julian Posada

With the astounding progress in (generative) artificial intelligence (AI), there has been significant public discourse regarding regulation and ethics of the technology. Is it sufficient when humans discuss this with other humans? Or, given…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Maria Fay , Frederik F. Flöther

In this Article, I explore the impending conflict between the protection of civil rights and artificial intelligence (AI). While both areas of law have amassed rich and well-developed areas of scholarly work and doctrinal support, a growing…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Sonia Katyal

The proliferation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has sparked an overwhelming number of AI ethics guidelines, boards and codes of conduct. These outputs primarily analyse competing theories, principles and values for AI development and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Anastasia Siapka

Previous research has shown that the fairness and the legitimacy of a moral decision-maker are important for people's acceptance of and compliance with the decision-maker. As technology rapidly advances, there have been increasing hopes and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Boyoung Kim , Elizabeth Phillips

Whether and how to govern AI is no longer a question of technical regulation. It is a question of constitutional authority. Across jurisdictions, algorithmic systems now perform functions once reserved to public institutions: allocating…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Yiyang Mei , Michael J Broyde

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a digital technology that will be of major importance for the development of humanity in the near future. AI has raised fundamental questions about what we should do with such systems, what the systems…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Vincent C. Müller

Regulating artificial intelligence (AI) has become necessary in light of its deployment in high-risk scenarios. This paper explores the proposal to extend legal personhood to AI and robots, which had not yet been examined through the lens…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Gabriel Lima , Meeyoung Cha , Chihyung Jeon , Kyungsin Park

Lethal Autonomous Weapons promise to revolutionize warfare -- and raise a multitude of ethical and legal questions. It has thus been suggested to program values and principles of conduct (such as the Geneva Conventions) into the machines'…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2014-11-12 Matthias Englert , Sandra Siebert , Martin Ziegler
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