Robot rights claims are western privilege

(Abeba, CompSci@Dublin, Jelle, Management@Twente, Robot Rights? Let’s Talk about Human Welfare Instead https://arxiv.org/pdf/2001.05046.pdf)

Bryson already accepts part of framing of the narrative of robo ethics, where a discussion to consider the ontological status of robots in relation to rights is legitimate in principle. Our position is that the entire discussion is completely misguided. At best, robot ethics debates are First World philosophical musings, too disengaged from actual affairs of humans in the real world. In the worst case, it may contain bad faith — the white, male academic’s diminutive characterization of actually oppressed people and their fight for rights, by appealing to ‘reason’.