"Will deployment of synthetic emotions into affective systems increase the accessibility of A/IS? Will increased accessibility prompt unforeseen patterns of identification with A/IS?
## BackgroundDeliberately constructed emotions are designed to create empathy between humans and artifacts, which may be useful or even essential for human-A/IS collaboration. Synthetic emotionsare essential for humans to collaborate with theA/IS but can also lead to failure to recognize that synthetic emotions can be compartmentalized and even entirely removed. Potential consequences for humans include different patterns of bonding, guilt, and trust, whether between the human and A/IS or between other humans. There is no coherent sense in which A/IS can be made to suffer emotional loss, because any such affect, even if possible, could be avoided at the stage of engineering, or reengineered. As such, it is not possible to allocate moral agency or responsibility in the senses that have been developed for human emotional bonding and thus sociality"p.103-102