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How hiring: Dogs and humans need not apply

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This is a review of Hans Moravec's book, Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind. This review raises three categories of questions relating to Moravec's vision of the future. First, there are the ethical and social implications issues implicit in robotics research. Second, there are the soul issues, which especially relate to the prospect of the demoralization of human beings. Third, there is the issue as to whether a robot could ever be a sentient being.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, West Chester University of Pennsylvania, West Chester, PA, 19383, USA E-mail

    Richard G. Epstein

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Epstein, R.G. How hiring: Dogs and humans need not apply. Ethics and Information Technology 1, 227–236 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1010064106064

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