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most citedThe Moral Consideration of Artificial Entities: A Literature Review

102 citations

11 papers

cs.HC2025★ 7 cited

Mental Models of Autonomy and Sentience Shape Reactions to AI

Janet V. T. Pauketat, Daniel B. Shank, Aikaterina Manoli +1

Narratives about artificial intelligence (AI) entangle autonomy, the capacity to self-govern, with sentience, the capacity to sense and feel. AI agents that perform tasks autonomou…

cs.CY2025★ 23 cited

Public Opinion and The Rise of Digital Minds: Perceived Risk, Trust, and Regulation Support

Justin B. Bullock, Janet V. T. Pauketat, Hsini Huang +2

Governance institutions must respond to societal risks, including those posed by generative AI. This study empirically examines how public trust in institutions and AI technologies…

cs.AI2024★ 17 cited

Perceptions of Sentient AI and Other Digital Minds: Evidence from the AI, Morality, and Sentience (AIMS) Survey

Jacy Reese Anthis, Janet V. T. Pauketat, Ali Ladak +1

Humans now interact with a variety of digital minds, AI systems that appear to have mental faculties such as reasoning, emotion, and agency, and public figures are discussing the p…

cs.CV2024

ProtoP-OD: Explainable Object Detection with Prototypical Parts

Pavlos Rath-Manakidis, Frederik Strothmann, Tobias Glasmachers +1

Interpretation and visualization of the behavior of detection transformers tends to highlight the locations in the image that the model attends to, but it provides limited insight…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 28 cited

Learning with Delayed Rewards -- A case study on inverse defect design in 2D materials

Suvo Banik, Troy D Loeffler, Rohit Batra +3

Defect dynamics in materials are of central importance to a broad range of technologies from catalysis to energy storage systems to microelectronics. Material functionality depends…

cs.CY2021★ 102 cited

The Moral Consideration of Artificial Entities: A Literature Review

Jamie Harris, Jacy Reese Anthis

Ethicists, policy-makers, and the general public have questioned whether artificial entities such as robots warrant rights or other forms of moral consideration. There is little sy…

cs.RO2018

Social Navigation Planning Based on People's Awareness of Robots

Minkyu Kim, Jaemin Lee, Steven Jens Jorgensen +1

When mobile robots maneuver near people, they run the risk of rudely blocking their paths; but not all people behave the same around robots. People that have not noticed the robot…

cs.NE2018★ 47 cited

From Nodes to Networks: Evolving Recurrent Neural Networks

Aditya Rawal, Risto Miikkulainen

Gated recurrent networks such as those composed of Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) nodes have recently been used to improve state of the art in many sequential processing tasks such…

cs.NE2018

Enhancing Evolutionary Conversion Rate Optimization via Multi-armed Bandit Algorithms

Xin Qiu, Risto Miikkulainen

Conversion rate optimization means designing web interfaces such that more visitors perform a desired action (such as register or purchase) on the site. One promising approach, imp…

cs.LG2017★ 20 cited

Beyond Shared Hierarchies: Deep Multitask Learning through Soft Layer Ordering

Elliot Meyerson, Risto Miikkulainen

Existing deep multitask learning (MTL) approaches align layers shared between tasks in a parallel ordering. Such an organization significantly constricts the types of shared struct…

cs.NE2017

Discovering Evolutionary Stepping Stones through Behavior Domination

Elliot Meyerson, Risto Miikkulainen

Behavior domination is proposed as a tool for understanding and harnessing the power of evolutionary systems to discover and exploit useful stepping stones. Novelty search has show…