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      Human-AI friendship: Rejecting the appropriate sentimentality criterion

      Weijers, Dan M.; Munn, Nicholas
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       10.1007/978-3-031-09153-7_17
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      https://hdl.handle.net/10289/15372
      Abstract
      Most traditional philosophical views of friendship deny the possibility of human-AI friendship because they consider feeling love or something similar towards the other to be a requirement for genuine friendship. We call this the appropriate sentimentality criterion for friendship. Coupled with the claim that AI cannot and will not ever be able to feel what a friend should feel, the appropriate sentimentality criterion is the key to an argument that genuine human-AI friendship will never be possible. We argue against the requirement of appropriate sentimentality for friendship, suggesting that the feelings commonly associated with friendship are only a proxy for what really matters. We go on to present an inclusive account of friendship that requires only mutual positive intentions and a preponderance of rewarding interactions. We conclude that the appropriate sentimentality criterion for friendship should be rejected and that real human-AI friendships are currently possible.
      Date
      2022
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      Springer
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      © 2022 The Author(s), This is the author's accepted version. The final publication is available at Springer via dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09153-7_17
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