What is the moral and legal status of machines?
Are they mere "things", could they be "persons", or are they something else? These are the questions explored in David J. Gunkel's new book "Person, thing, robot: A Moral and Legal Ontology for the 21st Century and Beyond".
David J. Gunkel is Presidential Research, Scholarship, and Artistry Professor in the Department of Communication at Northern Illinois University and Professor of Philosophy at Lazarski University in Warsaw, Poland. He is the author of Robot Rights, Of Remixology: Ethics and Aesthetics after Remix, and The Machine Question: Critical Perspectives on AI, Robots, and Ethics (all MIT Press).
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