Fictional emotions and emotional reactions to social robots as depictions of social agents.

Following the depiction theory by Clark and Fischer we would expect people interacting with robots to experience emotions akin to those toward films or novels. However, some people's emotional reactions toward robots display the motivational force typical to emotions. We discuss this incongruity and offer two suggestions on how to explain it while maintaining the depiction theory.

How to feel about emotionalized artificial intelligence? When robot pets, holograms, and chatbots become affective partners.

Interactions between humans and machines that include artificial intelligence are increasingly common in nearly all areas of life. Meanwhile, AI-products are increasingly endowed with emotional characteristics. That is, they are designed and trained to elicit emotions in humans, to recognize human emotions and, sometimes, to simulate emotions (EAI).

Debating social egg freezing: arguments from phases of life.

So-called "social egg freezing" allows a woman to retain the possibility of trying to have a child with her own oocytes later in life, even after having become infertile in the strict sense of the word (that is, infertile without assistance in reproduction).There is a debate about whether it is morally permissible at all, the extent to which it should be permitted legally or even supported, and whether it is ethically desirable. This paper contributes some thoughts to the issue of ethical desirability.