This 'Ethical Trap' Is for Roboticists, Not Robots: On the Issue of Artificial Agent Ethical Decision-Making.

In this paper we address the question of when a researcher is justified in describing his or her artificial agent as demonstrating ethical decision-making. The paper is motivated by the amount of research being done that attempts to imbue artificial agents with expertise in ethical decision-making....

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Publicado en:Science & Engineering Ethics Vol. 23; no. 2; pp. 389 - 402
Autores principales: Miller, Keith, Wolf, Marty, Grodzinsky, Frances
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature Apr2017
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