The Algorithmic Blind Spot: Bias, Moral Status, and the Future of Robot Rights
Contemporary debates in AI ethics increasingly foreground the prospective moral status of artificial intelligence and the possibility of extending moral or legal rights to artificial agents. While such discussions raise substantive philosophical questions, they often proceed alongside a comparatively limited engagement with the empirically documented harms generated by algorithmic systems already embedded within social, legal, and economic institutions. We conceptualize this asymmetry as an algo
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Published: 10 March 2026
Source: arXiv
Category: Research
Topics: Bias & fairness · Agents & autonomy
Retrieved: 14 July 2026
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ethics.ai (10 March 2026), “The Algorithmic Blind Spot: Bias, Moral Status, and the Future of Robot Rights,” evidence record 7407, https://ethics.ai/record/7407 (originally published by arXiv).
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