This episode is the first in a series of interviews with philosopher helen ryland. We talk about whether we can have meaningful emotional relationships with robots. And if it's possible to love and hate them, how do you decide? The full interview will be on BBC Radio 5 Live next week at 9pm.
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Can we move beyond the Aristotelian account of friendship when thinking about our relationships with robots? Can we hate robots? In this episode, I talk to Helen Ryland about these topics. Helen is a UK-based philosopher. She completed her PhD in Philosophy in 2020 at the University of Birmingham. She now works as an Associate Lecturer for The Open University. Her work examines human-robot relationships, video game ethics, and the personhood and moral status of marginal cases of human rights (e.g., subjects with dementia, nonhuman animals, and robots).
