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Feeling Machines: Challenges and Ethical Perspectives in Developing Robots with Emotions

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This academic chapter explores the design challenges and ethical dilemmas of developing robots with artificial emotional intelligence. It examines whether robots can or should be equipped with emotions by analyzing human behavior, superficial emotion simulation, and internal emotional apparatuses. Ultimately, the text addresses the philosophical question of whether artificial intelligence can genuinely possess emotions and discusses the possibility of non-human emotional states.

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SpringerIndustry

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Researchers and developers in artificial intelligence and robotics interested in the ethics and design of emotional machines.

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Research and science · artificial intelligence and robotics research

What the document contains

What's covered

The text covers design challenges, ethical dilemmas, and feasibility aspects of creating robots with artificial emotions, analyzing different approaches to human-robot interaction and emotion simulation.

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The document contains no binding legal regulations, compliance mechanisms, or policy enforcement frameworks.

Key takeaways

The integration of Artificial Emotional Intelligence in robotic systems offers promising avenues for enhancing human-robot interactions.
Three main approaches include exploiting anthropomorphism, superficial simulation, and integrating an internal emotional apparatus.
Replicating human-like emotions in robots faces significant challenges due to conflicting theories of emotions.
Robots might potentially develop non-human emotional states, which would necessitate new definitions and ethical paradigms.

Outline

Abstract
Introduction to human emotions and robot behavior
Approaches to embedding emotions in social robots
The possibility of AI genuinely possessing emotions
Exploration of non-human emotional states and ethical paradigms

Issued11 May 2025

Length2,561 words

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artificial_emotional_intelligence robotics machine_ethics human_robot_interaction anthropomorphism