Killing Sophia: Consciousness, Empathy, and Reason in the Age of Intelligent Robots (27)

by Thomas Telving MA

Humanlike robots and digital humans are both fun and useful in many situations. But the more we interact with technology with human traits, the more we believe it to possess real human characteristics like consciousness and personality. As a new breed of artificial beings enter society on a large scale, many of us will start believing they deserve moral consideration and perhaps even rights. In this entertaining and humorously written book, Thomas Telving argues that even though the above scenario is close to inevitable, we should still do all we can to avoid it. Presenting us with thought-provoking future scenarios, state of the art research, and plenty of philosophical thinking, he shows us how to avoid some of the most scary pitfalls of intelligent technology. The book has undergone peer review and is being recommended by various scholars as a relevant read for both academic students and laypeople.

137 pages, Paperback

Published July 15, 2022

Reviews

[Helle Telving · Rating 5 out of 5]

Bogen beskæftiger sig med AI med fokus på, om robotter kan udvikle en menneskelignende bevidsthed, som vi må tage hensyn til. Problematikken belyses klart og relaterbart med afsæt i filosofiske teorier, ofte med eksempler fra hverdagen og med et humoristisk tvist. Forfatteren argumenterer overbevisende for, at selvom en menneskelignende robot næppe har større bevidsthed end en brødrister, skal vi kun behandle dem med empati for ikke at korrumpere vores egen menneskelighed. En overraskende underholdende bog om et brændende aktuelt emne.