„SENTIMENTAL” ROBOTS (LOVOTICS) AND THEIR IMPACT ON PRIVATE AND FAMILY LIFE
„SENTIMENTAL” ROBOTS (LOVOTICS) AND THEIR IMPACT ON PRIVATE AND FAMILY LIFE

Summary/Abstract: The emergence of a new category of artificial intelligence mechanisms that of robots that replicate, from a sentimental/emotional point of view human manifestations and attitudes is a fact that creates tensions in the classical theory of human rights from the perspective of interpreting and applying guarantees of protection with regard toprivate and family life. This paper aims to analyze, by reference to soft law instruments and representative doctrinal opinions, the possibility of recognizing the legal status of sentimental robots and the legal consequences of such formal recognition. Taking into account the particularity of sentimental robots, our analysis will give prominence to the repercussions brought by this peculiar robots on private and family life as a consequence of the possibility of granting a suis generis legal status in their favor.

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