Programming Machine Ethics

Author : Luís Moniz Pereira
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319293540
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Programming Machine Ethics written by Luís Moniz Pereira and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-10 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the fundamentals of machine ethics. It discusses abilities required for ethical machine reasoning and the programming features that enable them. It connects ethics, psychological ethical processes, and machine implemented procedures. From a technical point of view, the book uses logic programming and evolutionary game theory to model and link the individual and collective moral realms. It also reports on the results of experiments performed using several model implementations. Opening specific and promising inroads into the terra incognita of machine ethics, the authors define here new tools and describe a variety of program-tested moral applications and implemented systems. In addition, they provide alternative readings paths, allowing readers to best focus on their specific interests and to explore the concepts at different levels of detail. Mainly written for researchers in cognitive science, artificial intelligence, robotics, philosophy of technology and engineering of ethics, the book will also be of general interest to other academics, undergraduates in search of research topics, science journalists as well as science and society forums, legislators and military organizations concerned with machine ethics.

Author : Luís Moniz Pereira
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030396304
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Machine Ethics written by Luís Moniz Pereira and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-22 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the first systematic guide to machine ethics, bridging between computer science, social sciences and philosophy. Based on a dialogue between an AI scientist and a novelist philosopher, the book discusses important findings on which moral values machines can be taught and how. In turn, it investigates what kind of artificial intelligence (AI) people do actually want. What are the main consequences of the integration of AI in people’s every-day life? In order to co-exist and collaborate with humans, machines need morality, but which moral values should we teach them? Moreover, how can we implement benevolent AI? These are just some of the questions carefully examined in the book, which offers a comprehensive account of ethical issues concerning AI, on the one hand, and a timely snapshot of the power and potential benefits of this technology on the other. Starting with an introduction to common-sense ethical principles, the book then guides the reader, helping them develop and understand more complex ethical concerns and placing them in a larger, technological context. The book makes these topics accessible to a non-expert audience, while also offering alternative reading pathways to inspire more specialized readers.

Author : Michael Anderson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113949774X
Total Pages : 547 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Machine Ethics written by Michael Anderson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-09 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new field of machine ethics is concerned with giving machines ethical principles, or a procedure for discovering a way to resolve the ethical dilemmas they might encounter, enabling them to function in an ethically responsible manner through their own ethical decision making. Developing ethics for machines, in contrast to developing ethics for human beings who use machines, is by its nature an interdisciplinary endeavor. The essays in this volume represent the first steps by philosophers and artificial intelligence researchers toward explaining why it is necessary to add an ethical dimension to machines that function autonomously, what is required in order to add this dimension, philosophical and practical challenges to the machine ethics project, various approaches that could be considered in attempting to add an ethical dimension to machines, work that has been done to date in implementing these approaches, and visions of the future of machine ethics research.

Author : Wendell Wallach
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199737975
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moral Machines written by Wendell Wallach and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Moral Machines is a fine introduction to the emerging field of robot ethics. There is much here that will interest ethicists, philosophers, cognitive scientists, and roboticists." ---Peter Danielson, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews --

Author : David J. Gunkel
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262551578
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Robot Rights written by David J. Gunkel and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2024-03-19 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative attempt to think about what was previously considered unthinkable: a serious philosophical case for the rights of robots. We are in the midst of a robot invasion, as devices of different configurations and capabilities slowly but surely come to take up increasingly important positions in everyday social reality—self-driving vehicles, recommendation algorithms, machine learning decision making systems, and social robots of various forms and functions. Although considerable attention has already been devoted to the subject of robots and responsibility, the question concerning the social status of these artifacts has been largely overlooked. In this book, David Gunkel offers a provocative attempt to think about what has been previously regarded as unthinkable: whether and to what extent robots and other technological artifacts of our own making can and should have any claim to moral and legal standing. In his analysis, Gunkel invokes the philosophical distinction (developed by David Hume) between “is” and “ought” in order to evaluate and analyze the different arguments regarding the question of robot rights. In the course of his examination, Gunkel finds that none of the existing positions or proposals hold up under scrutiny. In response to this, he then offers an innovative alternative proposal that effectively flips the script on the is/ought problem by introducing another, altogether different way to conceptualize the social situation of robots and the opportunities and challenges they present to existing moral and legal systems.

Author : E. Gabriella Coleman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691144613
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coding Freedom written by E. Gabriella Coleman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who are computer hackers? What is free software? And what does the emergence of a community dedicated to the production of free and open source software--and to hacking as a technical, aesthetic, and moral project--reveal about the values of contemporary liberalism? Exploring the rise and political significance of the free and open source software (F/OSS) movement in the United States and Europe, Coding Freedom details the ethics behind hackers' devotion to F/OSS, the social codes that guide its production, and the political struggles through which hackers question the scope and direction of copyright and patent law. In telling the story of the F/OSS movement, the book unfolds a broader narrative involving computing, the politics of access, and intellectual property. E. Gabriella Coleman tracks the ways in which hackers collaborate and examines passionate manifestos, hacker humor, free software project governance, and festive hacker conferences. Looking at the ways that hackers sustain their productive freedom, Coleman shows that these activists, driven by a commitment to their work, reformulate key ideals including free speech, transparency, and meritocracy, and refuse restrictive intellectual protections. Coleman demonstrates how hacking, so often marginalized or misunderstood, sheds light on the continuing relevance of liberalism in online collaboration.

Author : Patrick Lin
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 026252600X
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Robot Ethics written by Patrick Lin and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prominent experts from science and the humanities explore issues in robot ethics that range from sex to war. Robots today serve in many roles, from entertainer to educator to executioner. As robotics technology advances, ethical concerns become more pressing: Should robots be programmed to follow a code of ethics, if this is even possible? Are there risks in forming emotional bonds with robots? How might society—and ethics—change with robotics? This volume is the first book to bring together prominent scholars and experts from both science and the humanities to explore these and other questions in this emerging field. Starting with an overview of the issues and relevant ethical theories, the topics flow naturally from the possibility of programming robot ethics to the ethical use of military robots in war to legal and policy questions, including liability and privacy concerns. The contributors then turn to human-robot emotional relationships, examining the ethical implications of robots as sexual partners, caregivers, and servants. Finally, they explore the possibility that robots, whether biological-computational hybrids or pure machines, should be given rights or moral consideration. Ethics is often slow to catch up with technological developments. This authoritative and accessible volume fills a gap in both scholarly literature and policy discussion, offering an impressive collection of expert analyses of the most crucial topics in this increasingly important field.

Author : Daniel Kohanski
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312254063
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moths in the Machine written by Daniel Kohanski and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-04-10 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating look at the computer's brain and the people who designed it, Kohanski assesses the programmer's trade, including the demands, limitations, and challenges of creating computer systems, and defines the important role they play in the modern world. of photos.

Author : Stacey L. Edgar
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
ISBN 13 : 9780763717674
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Morality and Machines written by Stacey L. Edgar and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2002 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended for science and technology students, philosophy students interested in applied ethics, and others who must deal with computers and the impact they have on our society.

Author : Wendell Wallach
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000108937
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Machine Ethics and Robot Ethics written by Wendell Wallach and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once the stuff of science fiction, recent progress in artificial intelligence, robotics, and machine learning means that these rapidly advancing technologies are finally coming into widespread use within everyday life. Such rapid development in these areas also brings with it a host of social, political and legal issues, as well as a rise in public concern and academic interest in the ethical challenges these new technologies pose. This volume is a collection of scholarly work from leading figures in the development of both robot ethics and machine ethics; it includes essays of historical significance which have become foundational for research in these two new areas of study, as well as important recent articles. The research articles selected focus on the control and governance of computational systems; the exploration of ethical and moral theories using software and robots as laboratories or simulations; inquiry into the necessary requirements for moral agency and the basis and boundaries of rights; and questions of how best to design systems that are both useful and morally sound. Collectively the articles ask what the practical ethical and legal issues, arising from the development of robots, will be over the next twenty years and how best to address these future considerations.