Machine ethics / edited by Michael Anderson, Susan Leigh Anderson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Anderson, Michael, 1951- editor.

Anderson, Susan Leigh, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artificial intelligence--Philosophy.

Artificial intelligence.

Artificial intelligence--Moral and ethical aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 538 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The new field of machine ethics is concerned with giving machines ethical principles, or a procedure for discovering a way to resolve the ethical dilemmas they might encounter, enabling them to function in an ethically responsible manner through their own ethical decision making. Developing ethics for machines, in contrast to developing ethics for human beings who use machines, is by its nature an interdisciplinary endeavor. The essays in this volume represent the first steps by philosophers and artificial intelligence researchers toward explaining why it is necessary to add an ethical dimension to machines that function autonomously, what is required in order to add this dimension, philosophical and practical challenges to the machine ethics project, various approaches that could be considered in attempting to add an ethical dimension to machines, work that has been done to date in implementing these approaches, and visions of the future of machine ethics research.

Contents:

The nature, importance, and difficulty of machine ethics / James H. Moor

Machine metaethics / Susan Leigh Anderson

Ethics for machines / J. Storrs Hall

Why machine ethics? / Colin Allen, Wendell Wallach, and Iva Smit

Authenticity in the age of digital companions / Sherry Turkle

What matters to a machine? / Drew McDermott

Machine ethics and the idea of a more-than-human moral world / Steve Torrance

On computable morality : an examination of machines / Blay Whitby

When is a robot a moral agent? / John P. Sullins

Philosophical concerns with machine ethics / Susan Leigh Anderson

Computer systems : moral entities but not moral agents / Deborah G. Johnson

On the morality of artificial agents / Luciano Floridi

Legal rights for machines : some fundamental concepts / David J. Calverley

Towards the ethical robot / James Gips

Asimov's laws of robotics : implications for information technology / Roger Clarke

The unacceptability of Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics as a basis for machine ethics / Susan Leigh Anderson

Computational models of ethical reasoning : challenges, initial steps, and future directions / Bruce M. McLaren

Computational neural modeling and the philosophy of ethics : reflections on the particularism-generalism debate / Marcello Guarini

Architecture and ethics for robots : constraint satisfaction as a unitary design framework / Alan K. Mackworth

Piagetian roboethics via category theory : moving beyond mere formal operations to engineer robots whose decisions are guaranteed to be ethically correct / Selmer Bringsjord [and others]

Ethical protocols design / Matteo Turilli

Modeling morality with prospective logic / Luís Moniz Pereira and Ari Saptawijaya

An integrated reasoning approach to moral decision making / Morteza Dehghani [and others]

Prototyping N-reasons : a computer mediated ethics machine / Peter Danielson

There is no "I" in "robot" : robots and utilitarianism / Christopher Grau

Prospects for a Kantian machine / Thomas M. Powers

A prima facie duty approach to machine ethics : machine learning of features of ethical dilemmas, prima facie duties, and decision principles through a dialogue with ethicists / Susan Leigh Anderson and Michael Anderson

What can AI do for ethics? / Helen Seville and Debora G. Field

Ethics for self-improving machines / J. Storrs Hall

How machines might help us achieve breakthroughs in ethical theory and inspire us to behave better / Susan Leigh Anderson

Homo sapiens 2.0 : building the better robots of our nature / Eric Dietrich.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-107-21262-6

1-283-12724-5

1-139-07521-7

9786613127242

1-139-08203-5

1-139-06944-6

1-139-07747-3

1-139-07976-X

0-511-97803-0

OCLC:

735593770