Abstract Social robots are that can interact socially with humans. As social and the artificial intelligence (AI) powers them becomes more advanced, they will likely take on work roles. This has many important ethical implications. In this paper, we focus one of most central these, impacts have human autonomy. We argue that, due to their physical presence capacities, there is a strong potential...

In the paper we introduce a quantitative measure of autonomy in multiagent interactions. We quantify and analyse different types of agent autonomy: (a) decision autonomy versus action autonomy, (b) autonomy with respect to an agent’s user, (c) autonomy with respect to other agents and groups of agents, and (d) a measure of group autonomy that accounts for the degree with which one group depends...

This paper investigates the determinants of female autonomy in Indonesia using the 2000 Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS3). We consider the role of kinship norms and the effect of labor force participation on female autonomy. Our measure of autonomy is based on self-reported answers to an array of questions relating to decision making authority in the household. They include economic and chi...

Learner autonomy has become the area of interest by many researchers of foreign language learning in the recent years. However, few studies have been done concerning the case of Kurdish learners` autonomy in learning languages. For this reason, the current study addresses this gap. It intends to investigate to what extent Kurdish learners are autonomous in learning English language. The study i...

abstract this study aimed at investigating the possible impact of gender and proficiency level on the relationship between autonomy and listening comprehension ability among iranian low and high proficiency male and female efl learners. one hundred six english learners, based on the results of oxford placement test (opt), version ii, took part in this study. both female and male learners with t...

In this paper the author analyzes relations between parental autonomy, child autonomy and State authority powers within purview of content rights, family status (maternity paternity) as well in exercise rights. These issues are presented according to Serbian law court practice, from a comparative international perspective.