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The second-order problem of other minds.

Ori FriedmanArber Tasimi
Published in: The Behavioral and brain sciences (2023)
The target article proposes that people perceive social robots as depictions rather than as genuine social agents. We suggest that people might instead view social robots as social agents, albeit agents with more restricted capacities and moral rights than humans. We discuss why social robots, unlike other kinds of depictions, present a special challenge for testing the depiction hypothesis.
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