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Moral machines : teaching robots right from wrong / Wendell Wallach, Colin Allen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wallach, Wendell, 1946- author.
- Allen, Colin, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Robotics.
- Computers--Social aspects.
- Computers.
- Computers--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 275 pages) : illustrations
- Other Title:
- Teaching robots right from wrong
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 'Moral Machines' is the first book to examine the challenge of building artificial moral agents, probing deeply into the nature of human decision making and ethics.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-262) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-281-98081-1
- 9786611980818
- 0-19-970596-8
- OCLC:
- 922953862
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