Overview
- Considers whether it is possible to form meaningful social connections with chatbots
- Reviews the implications of chatbots and other artificial intelligence on relationships and social change
- Discusses ethical challenges of Artificial Intelligence and current debates about robot rights
Part of the book series: Social and Cultural Studies of Robots and AI (SOCUSRA)
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This book explores some of the ethical, legal, and social implications of chatbots, or conversational artificial agents. It reviews the possibility of establishing meaningful social relationships with chatbots and investigates the consequences of those relationships for contemporary debates in the philosophy of Artificial Intelligence. The author introduces current technological challenges of AI and discusses how technological progress and social change influence our understanding of social relationships. He then argues that chatbots introduce epistemic uncertainty into human social discourse, but that this can be ameliorated by introducing a new ontological classification or 'status' for chatbots. This step forward would allow humans to reap the benefits of this technological development, without the attendant losses. Finally, the author considers the consequences of chatbots on human-human relationships, providing analysis on robot rights, human-centered design, and the social tension between robophobes and robophiles.
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About the author
Hendrik Kempt, M.A. is Research Associate at the Institute for Applied Ethics at RWTH Aachen, Germany, and was previously a visiting scholar at the University of Southern California and Brown University, USA. He is author of Moral Progress and AI (in Yearbook of Practical Philosophy, 2019), and editor of RuPaul's Drag Race and Philosophy (2020).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Chatbots and the Domestication of AI
Book Subtitle: A Relational Approach
Authors: Hendrik Kempt
Series Title: Social and Cultural Studies of Robots and AI
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56290-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56289-2Published: 27 September 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56292-2Published: 28 September 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-56290-8Published: 26 September 2020
Series ISSN: 2523-8523
Series E-ISSN: 2523-8531
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 183
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology, general, Digital/New Media, Computational Linguistics, Personality and Social Psychology