Can Artificial Intelligences Suffer from Mental Illness? A Philosophical Matter to Consider

Hutan Ashrafian
2016 Science and Engineering Ethics  
The potential for artificial intelligences and robotics in achieving the capacity of consciousness, sentience and rationality offers the prospect that these agents have minds. If so, then there may be a potential for these minds to become dysfunctional, or for artificial intelligences and robots to suffer from mental illness.
doi:10.1007/s11948-016-9783-0 pmid:27351772 pmcid:PMC5364237 fatcat:faqq4ktring2jbskslcqzrtlk4