Consciousness, Authenticity, and Transcendence of Social Robots
The MIT Press eBooks January 13, 2026 Peter H. Kahn
Some years ago when I was in Japan, I was having dinner with Hiroshi Ishiguro, a leading international roboticist, perhaps most well-known for his android creations.That dinner marked the beginning of what has now become more than a decade of us meeting as friends and as collaborators on research about people's social and moral relationships with robots.For our dinner, Ishiguro had chosen a...