The Fictional Pact in Human-Machine Interaction. Notes on Empathy and Violence Towards Robots

Interaction with robots will undoubtedly modify our social dynamics, will bring a new labor, economic and relational scenario and, above all, will force us to redefine our moral boundaries. This paper looks to the near future to elucidate, through concrete examples, what coexistence with humanoids will be like and what the consequences will be in the exercise of empathy and violence. It will address, within the framework of the theory of literature, the establishment of a new fictional pact with machines to determine their impact on human behavior. It will be a legal and philosophical approach to the great question, the basis of robotics and Artificial Intelligence, of how the arrival of androids will transform, radically and for the first time, the concept of what it means to be human.