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Ex Machina: Is Ava a Person?

Einar Duenger Bohn

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Artificial general intelligencePersonhoodmedia_common.quotation_subjectArtificial consciousnessConsciousnessPsychologyEpistemologymedia_common

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What does it mean to be a person? Is it possible to create an artificial person? In this essay, I consider the case of Ava, an advanced artificial general intelligence from the movie Ex Machina. I suggest we should interpret the movie as testing whether Ava is a person. I start out by discussing what it means to be a person, before I discuss whether Ava is such a person. I end by briefly looking at the ethics of the case of Ava and artificial personhood. I conclude, among some other things, that consciousness is a necessary requirement for personhood, and that one of the main obstacles for artificial personhood is artificial consciousness.

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2021-01-01
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64269-3_3