Free Moral Machines

Author: Wendell Wallach
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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0199737975
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong

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Categories: Computers->Social aspects, Robotics, Computers->Moral and ethical aspects. Contributors: Wendell Wallach - Author. Format: Hardcover. Download Moral Machines computer ebooks
Soon, service robots will be taking care of the elderly in their homes, and military robots will have their own targeting and firing protocols. Colin Allen and Wendell Wallach argue that as robots take on more and more responsibility, they must be programmed with moral decision-making abilities, for our own safety. Taking a fast paced tour through the latest thinking about philosophical ethics and artificial intelligence, the authors argue that even if full moral agency for machines is a long way off, it is already necessary to start building a kind of functional morality, in which artificial moral agents have some basic ethical sensitivity.