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Podcast: Modern Wisdom
Episode: #287 - Sven Nyholm - Are Sex Robots And Self-Driving Cars Ethical?
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:<...