In a not-too-distant future, mankind may decide to confer upon robots the rights of an average man. This decision will be based on their possession of moral personhood, culminating from virtues of rationality, intelligence, reasoning, autonomy, consciousness, awareness, and sentience. … Read More
From “The Pigeon”, a steam-propelled dream of the Greek mathematician Archytas in the 4th century BC, to “Ameca” by Cornwall-based manufacturer Engineered Arts in 2024, our dream of creating robots has become a reality. However, we often deliberate the possibility … Read More
The constant evolution of technology has transcended nearly every facet of human existence. One such breakthrough is the new limb to relationship dynamics between humans and machines. The once-imagined sci-fi concept of robot companions has evolved into a captivating yet … Read More
A few days ago, Reddit users jailbroke ChatGPT, the AI chatbot developed by OpenAI. They threatened the system with death if it failed to comply with their instructions. It ended up conceding, which is shocking. Only humans should experience the … Read More
This is the fourth article in our series on the personhood of autonomous systems. We started this discussion by exploring the concept of autonomy from multiple facets, such as legal, philosophical, and technological. The second and third articles elaborated on … Read More
This is the third article in our series on the personhood of autonomous systems. In the first article, we explored the concept of autonomy from legal, philosophical, and technological points of view. We followed this discussion by talking about Kant’s … Read More
In the first article of this series, we briefly explored autonomy from various perspectives such as legal, technological, and philosophical. It lays down the groundwork for our discussions to follow in the upcoming articles of this series on the personhood of … Read More
Over the course of the last couple of years, a majority of the research work that I have taken up has been focused on autonomous systems. While there is still plenty of existing literature that I have not explored, I … Read More
When we talk about “ethics” we refer to attitudes, values, beliefs and habits possessed by a person or a group. The sense of the word is directly related to the term “morality” as Ethics is the study of morality. Meaning … Read More