UNESCO Chair in Bioethics

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  • Bioethics and Law Observatory
  • UNESCO Chair in Bioethics
  • University of Barcelona
  • Faculty of Law
  • Ave. Diagonal, 684
  • 08034 Barcelona
  • (+34) 93 403 45 46
  • obd.ub@ub.edu
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  • Master in Bioethics and Law
  • (+34) 93 403 45 46
  • master.bd@ub.edu

 

"UNESCO science experts explore robots’ rights"

UNESCO

“Depending on future advances in this research area, one should not exclude the possibility of future robots’ sentience, emotions and, accordingly moral status,” a working group on emerging technologies of the World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST), a scientific advisory body at UNESCO, said in a preliminary draft report released this month.