Attributing Agency to Automated Systems: Reflections on Human-Robot Collaborations and Responsibility-Loci.

Many ethicists writing about automated systems (e.g. self-driving cars and autonomous weapons systems) attribute agency to these systems. Not only that; they seemingly attribute an autonomous or independent form of agency to these machines. This leads some ethicists to worry about responsibility-gap...

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Published in:	Science & Engineering Ethics Vol. 24; no. 4; pp. 1201 - 1220
Main Author:	Nyholm, Sven
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Nature Aug2018
Subjects:	Automatic control systems Automation Agent (Philosophy) Human-robot interaction Responsibility Ethics
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost