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What is essential to being human?: can AI robots not share it?

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The futureof the humanPublication details: Routledge 2021 OxonDescription: ix, 220 p. ill. Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN:
  • 9780367368289
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 128 W4
Summary: This book asks whether there exists an essence exclusive to human beings despite their continuous enhancement – a nature that can serve to distinguish humans from artificially intelligent robots, now and in the foreseeable future. Considering what might qualify as such an essence, this volume demonstrates that the abstract question of ‘essentialism’ underpins a range of social issues that are too often considered in isolation and usually justify ‘robophobia’, rather than ‘robophilia’, in terms of morality, social relations and legal rights. Any defence of human exceptionalism requires clarity about what property(ies) ground it and an explanation of why these cannot be envisaged as being acquired (eventually) by AI robots. As such, an examination of the conceptual clarity of human essentialism and the role it plays in our thinking about dignity, citizenship, civil rights and moral worth is undertaken in this volume. What is Essential to Being Human? will appeal to scholars of social theory and philosophy with interests in human nature, ethics and artificial intelligence. https://www.routledge.com/What-is-Essential-to-Being-Human-Can-AI-Robots-Not-Share-It/Archer-Maccarini/p/book/9780367368289
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. On Robophilia and Robophobia
3. Sapience and Sentience: A Reply to Porpora
4. Relational Essentialism
5. Artificial Intelligence: Sounds like a friend, looks like a friend, is it a friend?
6. Growing Up in a World of Platforms: What Changes and What Doesn’t?
7. On Macropolitics of Knowledge for Collective Learning in the Age of AI-Boosted
8. Can AIs do Politics?
9. Inhuman Enhancements? When Human Enhancements Alienate from Self, Others, Society and Nature
10. The Social Meanings of Perfection: Human Self-Understanding in a Post-Human Society

This book asks whether there exists an essence exclusive to human beings despite their continuous enhancement – a nature that can serve to distinguish humans from artificially intelligent robots, now and in the foreseeable future. Considering what might qualify as such an essence, this volume demonstrates that the abstract question of ‘essentialism’ underpins a range of social issues that are too often considered in isolation and usually justify ‘robophobia’, rather than ‘robophilia’, in terms of morality, social relations and legal rights. Any defence of human exceptionalism requires clarity about what property(ies) ground it and an explanation of why these cannot be envisaged as being acquired (eventually) by AI robots. As such, an examination of the conceptual clarity of human essentialism and the role it plays in our thinking about dignity, citizenship, civil rights and moral worth is undertaken in this volume. What is Essential to Being Human? will appeal to scholars of social theory and philosophy with interests in human nature, ethics and artificial intelligence.

https://www.routledge.com/What-is-Essential-to-Being-Human-Can-AI-Robots-Not-Share-It/Archer-Maccarini/p/book/9780367368289

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