@misc{10498/29888, year = {2020}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10498/29888}, abstract = {This article tries to contribute, from semantic, pragmatic and discursive theoretical questions, to the understanding of the present or future possibility that machines communicate with each other behind our back. For this, the forms of the opacity of natural language are presented first, in order to distinguish between implications, silences, secrets and lies. After this, the different types of secrets that could be shared by machines are explained, for which it is necessary to introduce new concepts such as the robotic Non-knowledge and the Non-Cooperative Principle,}, keywords = {Discourse}, keywords = {machines}, keywords = {secrets}, keywords = {communication}, keywords = {pragmatics}, title = {Will it ever be possible for machines to talk clandestinely? Introducing the non-cooperative principle}, doi = {10.15406/sij.2020.04.00233}, author = {López Muñoz, Juan Manuel}, }