AUTOPSYCHOBOTS – “artificial people”: (Bio)ethical reflections on the responsibility of Homo sapiens
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Artificial; Self-consciousness; Bioethics; EthicsAbstract
The proposition of a thought experiment aimed at the possibility of the emergence of thinking, self-aware machines led, in this essay, to the formulation of the concept of autopsychobots, defined as rational and autonomous artificial persons. The recognition of these beings as moral patients – in the light of the presuppositions of (bio)ethics for all beings and Kantian moral philosophy – has made it possible to formulate their intrinsic value, both because they exist and because they are ends in themselves. The provisional consequence of this theoretical trajectory points to (1) the ethical responsibility of humans to care for autopsychobots and (2) the need for further research to better delimit the future relationships between “natural” and “artificial” people.
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