Recently Posted to SSRN:
"Extending Legal Rights to Social Robots"
We Robot Conference, University of Miami, April 2012
KATE DARLING, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - MIT Media Laboratory
People tend to anthropomorphize robots that interact with humans on a social level. This Article explores whether projecting emotions onto objects could lead to an extension of limited legal rights to robotic companions, analogous to animal abuse laws.
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