To what extent is the artificial friend welcome in the good human life?

我们生活的世界主要选择了接受数据驱动的技术创新的快速进步;这在塑造当代社会格局方面发挥了根本性的作用。这种变化的一个关键方面可以从我们与他人互动的方式中观察到-从仅仅与有机代理建立和维持关系，到对虚拟和智能人工代理的依赖和欣赏。我试图批判性地评估我们与人工代理（AA）的关系在多大程度上可以帮助人类繁荣，通过解决AA的能力展示（一个古老的概念）的友谊的美德。通过对一个将道德和技术智能结合起来的领域的贡献，我的研究旨在确定人工朋友在美好的人类生活中受到（或应该受到）欢迎的程度。这篇研究论文将捍卫和利用一个模型，这将有助于概念化到底是什么构成了一个人造的朋友。PGR建议采用“抽象方法”，或者更具体地说，认识论层次主义。这种方法包括明确指定系统的观察结果（“研究对象”）。指定的有限但非空的可观测量集被称为抽象层次（loA），并根据对该系统进行充分分析所需的集合来确定。例如，在葡萄酒的情况下，“嗅觉”LoA将包含一组可观察的指标，如“花束”、“香味”和“柑橘”等，而“购买”LoA可能包括一组可观察的指标，如“成熟度”、“制造商”和“地区”等（Floridi，2008：p.309）。对于PGR的论文，PGR将分析的系统是“道德代理”。弗洛里迪和桑德斯认为，由于人类是典型的道德代理人，分析道德代理所需的一组可观察数据必须处于人类的抽象水平。他们认为，这组可观察量“可能”包括（Floridi & Saunders，2004：p.357 -8）：a）自主性：执行内部转换的能力-即改变其状态而不直接响应交互的转换。B）适应性：代理交互/经验可以改变其改变状态的转换规则（例如，机器学习）。（c）互动：代理人和环境可以相互作用（接受输入或产生输出）。当在人工代理人中观察到这些属性时，有人认为（在该LoA下）AA有资格成为道德代理人-这意味着至少在理论上似乎这样的实体可以表现出良性行为（Floridi和Saunders，2004：p.349）。我的论文的重点特别关注AA的能力，以展示友谊的美德。为了研究友谊的本质及其与美好生活的关系，PGR将以我的硕士论文（关于柏拉图《会饮篇》和《裂解篇》中友谊的本质）为基础，通过扩展PGR的知识来阐明柏拉图的友谊概念与美好生活的关系。此外，PGR将借鉴亚里士多德的概念，友谊的美德，如在Nichamonian伦理学书籍8和9。

The world we live in has predominantly chosen to embrace rapid advances in data-driven technological innovation; this has played a fundamental role in shaping the contemporary social landscape. One key aspect of this change can be observed in the way that we interact with others - from formulating and maintaining relationships solely with organic agents, to growing a dependency and appreciation of virtual and intelligent artificial agents. I seek to critically evaluate the extent to which our relationships with artificial agents (AA's) can aid in human flourishing, by means of addressing the capacity for AA's to exhibit (an ancient conception of) the virtue of friendship. By contributing to a field that unites moral and technological intelligence, my research seeks to establish the extent to which an artificial friend is (or should be) welcome in the good human life. This research thesis will defend and utilise a model that will aid in conceptualising exactly what constitutes an artificial friend. The PGR proposes to adopt the 'Method of Abstraction', or more specifically, epistemological levelism. This methodology involves explicitly specifying observations of a system (the 'object of study'). The finite but non-empty set of observables specified is referred to as the level of abstraction, (loA), and determined in accordance with what set is required for an adequate analysis of that system. For example, in the case of wine, an "olfactory" LoA would incorporate a set of observables such as 'bouquet' 'aroma', and 'citrus' etc., whereas a "purchasing" LoA might include a set of observables such as 'maturity', 'supplier', and 'region' etc. (Floridi, 2008: p.309). For the PGR's thesis, the system the PGR will analyse is 'moral agency'. Floridi and Saunders argue that since human beings are paradigmatic moral agents, the set of observables required to analyse moral agency must be at a human level of abstraction. They argue that this set of observables 'probably' include (Floridi & Saunders, 2004: p. 357-8):a) Autonomy: The capacity to perform internal transitions - i.e. transitions that change its state without direct response to interaction.b) Adaptability: The agents interactions/experiences can change the transition rules by which it changes state (e.g., machine learning). c) Interactivity: The agent and environment can act (take input or yield output) upon each other.When such properties are observed in artificial agents, it is argued that (at that LoA) AA's qualify as moral agents - meaning it is at least theoretically plausible that such entities can exhibit virtuous acts (Floridi and Saunders, 2004: p.349). The focus of my thesis specifically concerns the AA's capacity to exhibit the virtue of friendship. To examine the nature of friendship and its relationship to the good life, the PGR will build upon my master's dissertation (concerning the nature of friendship in Plato's Symposium and Lysis) by expanding the PGR's knowledge to explicate how Platonic conceptions of friendship are related to the good life. Furthermore, the PGR will draw upon Aristotle's conception of the virtue of friendship as presented in Nichamonian Ethics books 8 &9.