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Again on Agents’ Autonomy: A Homage to AlanTuring — Panel Chair’s Statement

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Intelligent Agents VII Agent Theories Architectures and Languages (ATAL 2000)

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“Autonomy”? Why wasting time with such a philosophical notion, such a ridiculous pretence typical of the arrogant ambitions of “Artificial Intelligence”? Is this a real scientific (and interesting) problem, or just “blah, blah”? Is this a relevant practical, technical issue? The answers to these questions are not obvious at all. Consider for example the animated discussion on the agents-list initiated by the following stimulating and radical intervention:

Our theory of autonomy based on dependence/reliance on other agents for some lacking resource and on the idea of “agents in the loop of other agents” is rather close to Hexmoor’s and to Barber’s view (this volume). Such a convergence is a good premise for the development of a shared ontology and a good operational definition.

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  1. Dep. of Communication Sciences, University of Siena, Siena

    Cristiano Castelfranchi

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  1. Department of Communication Sciences, “Cognitive Science”, University of Siena, piazza S.Francesco 8, 53100, Siena, Italy

    Cristiano Castelfranchi

  2. Department of Computer Science, York University, 4700 Keele Street, M3J 1P3, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Yves Lespérance

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Castelfranchi, C. (2001). Again on Agents’ Autonomy: A Homage to AlanTuring — Panel Chair’s Statement. In: Castelfranchi, C., Lespérance, Y. (eds) Intelligent Agents VII Agent Theories Architectures and Languages. ATAL 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1986. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44631-1_24

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