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Moral machines : teaching robots right from wrong

Wallach, Wendell 1946- (Author). Allen, Colin. (Added Author).

Summary: From the Publisher: Computers are already approving financial transactions, controlling electrical supplies, and driving trains. Soon, service robots will be taking care of the elderly in their homes, and military robots will have their own targeting and firing protocols. Colin Allen and Wendell Wallach argue that as robots take on more and more responsibility, they must be programmed with moral decision-making abilities, for our own safety. Taking a fast paced tour through the latest thinking about philosophical ethics and artificial intelligence, the authors argue that even if full moral agency for machines is a long way off, it is already necessary to start building a kind of functional morality, in which artificial moral agents have some basic ethical sensitivity. But the standard ethical theories don't seem adequate and more socially engaged and engaging robots will be needed. As the authors show, the quest to build machines that are capable of telling right from wrong has begun. 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.

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  • ISBN: 0195374045 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9780195374049 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: xi, 275 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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  • Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-262) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: 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.
Subject: Computers Moral and ethical aspects
Computers Social aspects
Robotics

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.

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Moral Machines : Teaching Robots Right from Wrong
Moral Machines : Teaching Robots Right from Wrong
by Wallach, Wendell; Allen, Colin
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Moral Machines : Teaching Robots Right from Wrong

SectionSection DescriptionPage Number
Acknowledgmentsp. ix
Introductionp. 3
Chapter 1Why Machine Morality?p. 13
Chapter 2Engineering Moralityp. 25
Chapter 3Does Humanity Want Computers Making Moral Decisions?p. 37
Chapter 4Can (Ro)bots Really Be Moral?p. 55
Chapter 5Philosophers, Engineers, and the Design of AMAsp. 73
Chapter 6Top-Down Moralityp. 83
Chapter 7Bottom-Up and Developmental Approachesp. 99
Chapter 8Merging Top-Down and Bottom-Upp. 117
Chapter 9Beyond Vaporware?p. 125
Chapter 10Beyond Reasonp. 139
Chapter 11A More Human-Like AMAp. 171
Chapter 12Dangers, Rights, and Responsibilitiesp. 189
Epilogue-(Ro)bot Minds and Human Ethicsp. 215
Notesp. 219
Bibliographyp. 235
Indexp. 263
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