Mark Coeckelbergh: Close encounters with robots
(World News Austria)

What is a human? What are social relations? Thinking about robotics and artificial intelligence is dealing with big philosophical questions. uni:view talked to Mark Coeckelbergh, philosopher of technology, about the ethics of robotics, his daily work and personal balance. In 1997 a chess-playing computer, developed by IBM, for the first time won against a human world champion. At the same time, 22-years-old Mark Coeckelbergh left his Belgian hometown Leuven in order to begin a Master`s in Philosophy at the University of East Anglia in the UK. Intelligence exhibited by machines has developed rapidly since then - nowadays chess computers shake off humans by far. Today Mark Coeckelbergh is...