Efforts to create computational models of consciousness have accelerated over the last two
decades, creating a field that has become known as artificial consciousness. There have …

Social robotics entertains a particular relationship with anthropomorphism, which it neither
sees as a cognitive error, nor as a sign of immaturity. Rather it considers that this common …

Social robots are robots that can interact socially with humans. As social robots and the
artificial intelligence (AI) that powers them becomes more advanced, they will likely take on …

The recent surge in interest in ethics in artificial intelligence may leave many educators
wondering how to address moral, ethical, and philosophical issues in their AI courses. As …

Will tomorrow's wars be dominated by autonomous drones, land robots and warriors wired
into a cybernetic network which can read their thoughts? Will war be fought with greater or …

With an increasing number of applications in the context of multi-agent systems, automated
negotiation is a rapidly growing area. Written by top researchers in the field, this state-of-the …

A burgeoning literature in IR asserts there is a relationship between pop cultural artifacts
and global policy processes, but this relationship is rarely explored using observational …

Medicine as a process and practice, ie, the medical technology of the future, will be based
on robotics. Our cooperation with robots, both as service providers and recipients of medical …

Some scholars suggest popular culture shapes public attitudes about foreign policy in ways
that can affect real-world political outcomes, but relatively few studies test this proposition …

Deception is a common and essential behavior in humans. Since human beings gain many
advantages from deceptive capabilities, we can also assume that robotic deception can …