Screen LibraryMachine ethics
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| Group Author: | ; |
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| Published: |
Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2011. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | viii, 538 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780521112352 (hbk) 0521112354 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | TP18 |
| CLC: | TP18 |
| Call Number: | TP18/M149-1 |
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Includes bibliographical references. "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 dime |