Hutan Ashrafian

Can Artificial Intelligences Suffer from Mental Illness? A Philosophical Matter to Consider.

Science and Engineering Ethics June 28, 2016 Hutan Ashrafian

The potential for artificial intelligences and robotics in achieving the capacity of consciousness, sentience and rationality offers the prospect that these agents have minds. If so, then there may be a potential for these minds to become dysfunctional, or for artificial intelligences and robots to suffer from mental illness. The existence of artificially intelligent psychopathology can be...