Ought to robots have rights? How about chimpanzees? Or rivers? Many individuals ask these questions individually, however few individuals have requested all of them collectively on the identical time. On this episode, I discuss to a person who has. Josh Gellers is an Affiliate Professor within the Division of Political Science and Public Administration on the College of North Florida, a Fulbright Scholar to Sri Lanka, a Analysis Fellow of the Earth System Governance Challenge, and Core Crew Member of the International Community for Human Rights and the Setting. His analysis focuses on environmental politics, rights, and know-how. He’s the writer of The International Emergence of Constitutional Environmental Rights (Routledge 2017) and Rights for Robots: Synthetic Intelligence, Animal and Environmental Legislation (Routledge 2020). We discuss in regards to the arguments and concepts within the latter e-book.
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Present notes
Subjects coated embrace:
- Ought to we even be speaking about robotic rights?
- What’s a proper? What is the distinction between a authorized and ethical proper?
- How can we justify the ascription of rights?
- What’s personhood? Who counts as an individual?
- Properties versus relations – what issues extra relating to ethical standing?
- What can we study from the animal rights case regulation?
- What can we study from the Rights of Nature debate?
- Can we think about a future by which robots have rights? What sorts of rights would possibly these be?
