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  • 6 - Challenges of the Legal Protection of Human Lives in the Time of Anthropomorphic Robots

  • from Part I - An Introduction to the Law, Policy, and Regulation for Human–Robot Interaction
  • Edited by Woodrow Barfield, Yueh-Hsuan Weng, Kyushu University, Japan, Ugo Pagallo, University of Turin
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of the Law, Policy, and Regulation for Human–Robot Interaction
    Published online:
    07 December 2024
    Print publication:
    21 November 2024, pp 100-114

  • Summary

    This chapter focuses on the potential impact of anthropomorphic robots on the safety of humans. Regarding the legal protection of human lives, the rise of anthropomorphic robots could pose at least two threats, the “epistemological threat” and the “patient threat.” The epistemological threat concerns humans’ epistemological limitations. Humans could have difficulty in distinguishing humans from robots owing to the way in which humans gather information about the external world. The patient threat concerns the possibility of prioritizing robots in situations in which human life is in danger owing to the recognition of robots as moral patients. This chapter also discusses the place of robots in the hierarchy of legally protected values and ways to mitigate the threat to human superiority by anthropomorphic robots.