This overview of the ethical issues raised by artificial intelligence moves beyond hype and
nightmare scenarios to address concrete questions—offering a compelling, necessary read …

Artificial intelligence (AI) and people's interactions with it—through virtual agents, socialbots,
and language-generation software—do not fit neatly into paradigms of communication …

Can robots have significant moral status? This is an emerging topic of debate among
roboticists and ethicists. This paper makes three contributions to this debate. First, it presents …

With robots increasingly assuming social roles (eg, assistants, companions),
anthropomorphism (ie, the cognition that an entity possesses human characteristics) plays a …

We are living through an era of increased robotisation. Some authors have already begun to
explore the impact of this robotisation on legal rules and practice. In doing so, many …

With increased digitalization and new technologies, societies are expected to no longer only
include human actors, but artificial actors as well. Such a future of societies raises new …

There are possible artificially intelligent beings who do not differ in any morally relevant
respect from human beings. Such possible beings would deserve moral consideration …

Many researchers have argued that humanity will create artificial general intelligence (AGI)
within the next twenty to one hundred years. It has been suggested that AGI may inflict …

The development of highly humanoid sex robots is on the technological horizon. If sex
robots are integrated into the legal community as “electronic persons”, the issue of sexual …

Suppose we are about to enter an era of increasing technological unemployment. What
implications does this have for society? Two distinct ethical/social issues would seem to …