vew: My central claim is that it's theoretically possible for us to be friends with at least some social robots now, rather just at some point in the future. But maybe you can talk about those degrees of friendship, which i think is interesting. In some ways, i was too kind of like stuck in the a aristotelian mode of thinking, and you canna break free from that.
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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).
