Building Moral Robots: Ethical Pitfalls and Challenges.
This paper examines the ethical pitfalls and challenges that non-ethicists, such as researchers and programmers in the fields of computer science, artificial intelligence and robotics, face when building moral machines. Whether ethics is "computable" depends on how programmers understand ethics in t...
| Published in: | Science & Engineering Ethics Vol. 26; no. 1; pp. 141 - 158 |
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