Many people argue that it's not possible for robots to be our friends. And when they say this, they usually mean virtue friendship. The argument is generally that we cannot be friends with robots because robots do not meet the conditions for being a friend. But anyway, we can kind of cash this out in more detail as we go along and i'll try and remember what i wrote em.
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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).
