Rights for Robots: Artificial Intelligence, Animal and Environmental Law

Bringing a unique perspective to the burgeoning ethical and legal issues surrounding the presence of artificial intelligence in our daily lives, the book uses theory and practice on animal rights and the rights of nature to assess the status of robots.

Through extensive philosophical and legal analyses, the book explores how rights can be applied to nonhuman entities. This task is completed by developing a framework useful for determining the kinds of personhood for which a nonhuman entity might be eligible, and a critical environmental ethic that extends moral and legal consideration to nonhumans. The framework and ethic are then applied to two hypothetical situations involving real-world technology--animal-like robot companions and humanoid sex robots. Additionally, the book approaches the subject from multiple perspectives, providing a comparative study of legal cases on animal rights and the rights of nature from around the world and insights from structured interviews with leading experts in the field of robotics. Ending with a call to rethink the concept of rights in the Anthropocene, suggestions for further research are made.

An essential read for scholars and students interested in robot, animal and environmental law, as well as those interested in technology more generally, the book is a ground-breaking study of an increasingly relevant topic, as robots become ubiquitous in modern society.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http: //www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/ISBN, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

本書在探討人工智慧在我們日常生活中存在的倫理和法律問題時，提供了獨特的觀點。書中運用動物權利和自然權利的理論和實踐，評估了機器人的地位。

通過廣泛的哲學和法律分析，本書探討了如何將權利應用於非人類實體。這一任務通過發展一個有助於確定非人類實體可能有資格的人格類型的框架，以及一個將道德和法律考慮擴展到非人類的關鍵環境倫理學來完成。然後，將這個框架和倫理學應用於兩個涉及現實世界技術的假設情境——類似動物的機器人伴侶和人形性愛機器人。此外，本書從多個角度探討這個主題，提供了對全球動物權利和自然權利的法律案例的比較研究，以及對領先的機器人領域專家的結構化訪談的見解。最後，本書呼籲重新思考人類世的權利概念，並提出進一步研究的建議。

對於對機器人、動物和環境法律感興趣的學者和學生，以及對技術有興趣的人來說，本書是一本重要的閱讀材料。它是對一個日益重要的主題的開創性研究，因為機器人在現代社會中變得無所不在。

本書的開放存取版本可在http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/ISBN上獲得，並根據創用CC BY-NC-ND 4.0許可證提供。

Joshua C. Gellers is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of North Florida, Research Fellow of the Earth System Governance Project, and Core Team Member of the Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment. His research focuses on the relationship between the environment, human rights, and technology. Josh has published work in Global Environmental Politics, International Environmental Agreements, and Journal of Environment and Development, among others. He is the author of The Global Emergence of Constitutional Environmental Rights (Routledge 2017).

Joshua C. Gellers是北佛羅里達大學政治學副教授，地球系統治理計畫的研究員，以及全球人權與環境研究網絡的核心團隊成員。他的研究專注於環境、人權和技術之間的關係。Josh在《全球環境政治》、《國際環境協議》和《環境與發展期刊》等期刊上發表了論文。他是《全球憲法環境權利的全球出現》（Routledge 2017）的作者。