Computational Modelling of Robot Personhood and Relationality

This SpringerBrief is a computational study of significant concerns and their role in forming long-term relationships between intelligent entities. Significant concerns include attitudes, preferences, affinities, and values that are held to be highly valued and meaningful: The means through which a person may find deeply held identity, purpose, and transformation. Significant concerns always engage the emotions and senses in a way that simply holding an opinion may or may not. For example, experiencing a significant concern may provoke deep feelings of awe and wonder in a way that deciding what to have for lunch probably does not, even if the lunch decision involves a rich array of preferences and values. Significant concerns also include what Emmons has called ultimate concerns.

The author builds upon this base by considering the hypothetical case of intelligence in androids. An android is defined as a human-like robot that humans would accept as equal to humans in how they perform and behave in society. An android as defined in this book is not considered to be imitating a human, nor is its purpose to deceive humans into believing that it is a human. Instead, the appropriately programmed android self-identifies as a non-human with its own integrity as a person. Therefore, a computational understanding of personhood and how persons - whether human or android - participate in relationships is essential to this perspective on artificial intelligence.

Computational Modelling of Robot Personhood and Relationality describes in technical detail an implementation of a computational model called Affinity that takes the form of a simulation of a population of entities that form, maintain, and break relationships with each other depending upon a rich range of values, motivations, attitudes, and beliefs. Future experimentation and improvements of this model may be used not only to gain a wider understanding of human persons but may also form a preliminary cognitive model of the reasoning process of an android.

這本SpringerBrief是一個關於重要關切及其在智能實體之間形成長期關係中的角色的計算研究。重要關切包括態度、偏好、親和力和價值觀，這些被認為是非常重要和有意義的：它們是一個人找到深深的身份、目的和轉變的手段。重要關切總是以一種情感和感官參與的方式，而僅僅持有一個觀點可能或可能不會。例如，經歷一個重要關切可能會引起深深的敬畏和驚奇的感覺，而決定午餐吃什麼可能不會，即使午餐的決定涉及豐富的偏好和價值觀。重要關切還包括Emmons所謂的終極關切。

作者在此基礎上考慮了智能機器人的假設案例。機器人被定義為一種人類與之在社會中的表現和行為上接受為與人類平等的類人機器人。在本書中，所定義的機器人並不被認為是在模仿人類，也不是為了欺騙人類相信它是人類。相反，適當編程的機器人自我認同為一個非人類，具有自己的人格完整性。因此，對於人格和人 - 無論是人類還是機器人 - 如何參與關係的計算理解對於這種對人工智能的觀點至關重要。

《機器人人格和關係的計算建模》以技術細節描述了一個名為Affinity的計算模型的實現，該模型以一個實體群體的模擬形式存在，這些實體根據豐富的價值觀、動機、態度和信念形成、維持和破裂彼此之間的關係。對這個模型的未來實驗和改進不僅可以獲得對人類的更廣泛理解，還可以形成對機器人推理過程的初步認知模型。