Synthetic Friends
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-13630-6 (ISBN)
This book explores the notion of whether we can be friends with machines in a philosophically meaningful way. Depending on our concept of friendship, we may be inclined to answer differently. Since social technology has made new forms of friendships possible between people across the globe, the author argues that the philosophical concept of friendship, forged thousands of years ago, should be re-examined. The author proposes a new approach to the debate that reflects the unique relationship we can build with machines as our synthetic friends.
Hendrik Kempt is Research Associate at the Applied Ethics Group at RWTH Aachen, Germany. He was previously a visiting scholar at the University of Southern California and Brown University, USA. He is editor of RuPaul's Drag Race and Philosophy (2020) and author of "Chatbots and the Domestication of AI" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) as well as several articles on the topic of human-machine interaction.
Chapter 1 - Introduction.- Chapter 2 - Why even?.-Chapter 3 - Critical Perspectives.- Chapter 4 - Social Philosophy of Technology.- Chapter 5 - Concepts and Theories of Friendship.- Chapter 6 - Digital Hermits.- Chapter 7 - Synthetic Friends .- Chapter 8 - Social Integration.- Chapter 9 - Criticism.- Chapter 10 - Almost a conclusion
"Regardless of whether the reader is predisposed to accept or reject the idea of synthetic friends, reading this book is time well spent." (Anthony J. Duben, Computing Reviews, April 13, 2023)
“Regardless of whether the reader is predisposed to accept or reject the idea of synthetic friends, reading this book is time well spent.” (Anthony J. Duben, Computing Reviews, April 13, 2023)
| Erscheinungsdatum | 29.09.2022 |
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| Zusatzinfo | IX, 211 p. 1 illus. |
| Verlagsort | Cham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
| Gewicht | 421 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Naturwissenschaften | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
| Schlagworte | Artificial Intelligence • Ethics of AI • human-machine friendship • Human-Machine Interactions • Normative Human-Machine Friendships • Social Ontology • social robotics • social robots • Social Technologies |
| ISBN-10 | 3-031-13630-6 / 3031136306 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-031-13630-6 / 9783031136306 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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