Moral machines : teaching robots right from wrong /
Computers are already approving financial transactions, controlling electrical supplies, and driving trains. 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 r...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2009
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Why machine morality?
- Engineering morality
- Does humanity want computers making moral decisions?
- Can (ro)bots really be moral?
- Philosophers, engineers, and the design of AMAs-- Top-down morality
- Bottom-up and developmental approaches
- Merging top-down and bottom-up
- Beyond vaporware?
- Beyond reason
- A more human-like AMA
- Dangers, rights, and responsibilities
- Epilogue: (Ro)bot minds and human ethics