Do you think computer scientists and engineers will ever be able to design a living, thinking, feeling robot or computer that is the same as a human person? Why or why not?

Answer all 5 questions:

Questions:

1. Do you think computer scientists and engineers will ever be able to design a living, thinking, feeling robot or computer that is the same as a human person? Why or why not?

2. If a computer or robot is a person, then what about its design makes it a person? Is it because it has a mind or a soul, or is it just because its circuitry is sufficiently analogous to the network of neurons in the human brain? Explain your answer.

3. Analyze whether it is wrong for us to treat this artificial intelligence like a slave according to consequentialism (utilitarianism)?

4. Analyze whether it is wrong for us to treat this artificial intelligence like a slave according to deontology.

5. Analyze whether it is wrong for us to treat this artificial intelligence like a slave according to virtue ethics.

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