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Ex Machina: Is Ava a Person?
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Authors/contributors
- Bøhn, Einar Duenger (Author)
- Dainton, Barry (Editor)
- Slocombe, Will (Editor)
- Tanyi, Attila (Editor)
Title
Ex Machina: Is Ava a Person?
Abstract
What does it mean to be a person? Is it possible to create an artificial person? In this essay, I consider the case of Ava, an advanced artificial general intelligence from the movie Ex Machina. I suggest we should interpret the movie as testing whether Ava is a person. I start out by discussing what it means to be a person, before I discuss whether Ava is such a person. I end by briefly looking at the ethics of the case of Ava and artificial personhood. I conclude, among some other things, that consciousness is a necessary requirement for personhood, and that one of the main obstacles for artificial personhood is artificial consciousness.
Book Title
Minding the Future: Artificial Intelligence, Philosophical Visions and Science Fiction
Place
Cham
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Date
2021
Pages
41-63
Language
en
ISBN
978-3-030-64269-3
Short Title
Ex Machina
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Citation
Bøhn, E. D. (2021). Ex Machina: Is Ava a Person? In B. Dainton, W. Slocombe, & A. Tanyi (Eds.), Minding the Future: Artificial Intelligence, Philosophical Visions and Science Fiction (pp. 41–63). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64269-3_3
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