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Kyle Poe
kyle.poe@gatech.edu
Summary Sentence: This talk examines the ethical impacts of the use of affective computer by engineers and roboticists who program their machines to mimic and manipulate human emotions in order to evoke love or amorous reactions from their human users.
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IAC Industry Chat: Robots, Love and SexJoin John P. Sullins, director of Sonoma State University's Center for Ethics Law and Society, for a discussion of the ways in which robotics technologies impact the ethical and moral landscape in which we live. This talk examines the ethical impacts of the use of affective computers by engineers and roboticists who program their machines to mimic and manipulate human emotions in order to evoke love or amorous reactions from their human users. The intersection of the philosophy of love and principles of machine ethics suggest a broader need to develop machines with ethical and moral practical wisdom, or "artificial phronesis."
