Studying artificial affect: the case of pain.
I motivate the systematic study of artificial affect by arguing that its possibility has significant intellectual, practical, and ethical implications. I argue the extant consciousness-centric approaches fail to address these implications, while behavioral approaches to AI sentience fail to address...
| Publicado en: | Inquiry Vol. 69; no. 6; pp. 2896 - 2918 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jul2026
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