The Machine Question: Critical Perspectives on AI, Robots, and Ethics (MIT Press)

In this book, David Gunkel takes up the machine question: The machine question poses a fundamental challenge to moral thinking, questioning the traditional philosophical conceptualization of technology as a tool or instrument to be used by human agents. Gunkel begins by addressing the question of machine moral agency: He then approaches the machine question from the other side, considering whether a machine might be a moral patient due legitimate moral consideration.

Finally, Gunkel considers some recent innovations in moral philosophy and critical theory that complicate the machine question, deconstructing the binary agent-patient opposition itself.

Technological advances may prompt us to wonder if the science fiction of computers and robots whose actions affect their human companions think of HAL in A Space Odyssey could become science fact. Gunkel's argument promises to influence future considerations of ethics, ourselves, and the other entities who inhabit this world. Toon meer Toon minder. Recensie s A formidable new book Provides a galaxy of challenging thought Gunkel does a fine job of lucid and concise exposition.

His argument that machines have always been the excluded other is convincing Gunkel engages the thinking of both 'analytic' and 'continental' philosophers, which I believe is a virtue The book is an original contribution to the field and likely to have wide reverberations He nevertheless succeeded in connecting the ethics of robots and AI to a much broader ethical discussion than has been represented in the literature on machine ethics to date.

The unprecedented value of the book is that Gunkel not only analyzes important aspects of the immediate problem but also that he places his discussion in the context of philosophical discussions on such related issues as rights discourse.

Maybe some day the moral status of machines will be obvious for all of us, but for the present Gunkel's book provides an important voice for discussion on the moral status of machines. It is delightful mainly because such diversity of approach, content, and examples is too rarely found in an academic publication Gunkel's book is worth reading and will likely find a place in courses dealing with the problems reflected in its title.

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