Are Sex Robots And Self-Driving Cars Ethical? - Sven Nyholm | Modern Wisdom Podcast 287

Sven Nyholm is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Ethics at Utrecht University. Robots are all around us. They perform actions, make decisions, collaborate with humans, be our friends, perhaps fall in love, and potentially harm us. What does this mean for our relationship to them and with them? Expect to learn why robots might need to have rights, whether it's ethical for robots to be sex slaves, why self-driving cars are being programmed to drive with human mistakes, who is responsible if a self driving car kills someone and much more... Sponsors: Get 83% discount & 3 months free from Surfshark VPN at https://surfshark.deals/MODERNWISDOM (use code MODERNWISDOM) Extra Stuff: Buy Humans And Robots - https://amzn.to/3qw9vbp Follow Sven on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SvenNyholm Get my free Ultimate Life Hacks List to 10x your daily productivity → https://chriswillx.com/lifehacks/ To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom #robots #artificialintelligence #selfdrivingcars - Listen to all episodes online. Search "Modern Wisdom" on any Podcast App or click here: iTunes: https://apple.co/2MNqIgw Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2LSimPn Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/modern-wisdom - Get in touch in the comments below or head to... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx Email: modernwisdompodcast@gmail.com

Sven NyholmguestChris Williamsonhost

Feb 25, 20211h 5mWatch on YouTube ↗

EPISODE INFO

Released: February 25, 2021
Duration: 1h 5m
Channel: Modern Wisdom
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Sven Nyholm is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Ethics at Utrecht University. Robots are all around us. They perform actions, make decisions, collaborate with humans, be our friends, perhaps fall in love, and potentially harm us. What does this mean for our relationship to them and with them? Expect to learn why robots might need to have rights, whether it's ethical for robots to be sex slaves, why self-driving cars are being programmed to drive with human mistakes, who is responsible if a self driving car kills someone and much more... Sponsors: Get 83% discount & 3 months free from Surfshark VPN at https://surfshark.deals/MODERNWISDOM (use code MODERNWISDOM) Extra Stuff: Buy Humans And Robots - https://amzn.to/3qw9vbp Follow Sven on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SvenNyholm Get my free Ultimate Life Hacks List to 10x your daily productivity → https://chriswillx.com/lifehacks/ To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom #robots #artificialintelligence #selfdrivingcars - Listen to all episodes online. Search "Modern Wisdom" on any Podcast App or click here: iTunes: https://apple.co/2MNqIgw Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2LSimPn Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/modern-wisdom - Get in touch in the comments below or head to... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx Email: modernwisdompodcast@gmail.com

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Sven Nyholm
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Chris Williamson
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EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Modern Wisdom, featuring Sven Nyholm and Chris Williamson, Are Sex Robots And Self-Driving Cars Ethical? - Sven Nyholm | Modern Wisdom Podcast 287 explores sex Robots, Self-Driving Cars, and the Future of Moral Machines The conversation explores how humans psychologically and ethically relate to increasingly autonomous technologies like robots, sex robots, and self-driving cars. Sven Nyholm explains that our evolved social instincts lead us to anthropomorphize machines, which can create both emotional attachments and ethical confusion. They examine questions of responsibility when autonomous systems cause harm, whether robots should have rights, and if technologies like sex robots—especially childlike ones—can ever be ethically acceptable. Throughout, they stress the need to think ahead and embed ethical reflection into the design of emerging technologies before they become deeply entrenched in everyday life.

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