Wendell Wallach
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“Machine Ethics and Robot Ethics” (2020)
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.
“A Dangerous Master: How to Keep Technology from Slipping Beyond Our Control” (2015)
The Co-author Of Moral Machines Explores Accountability Challenges Related To A World Shaped By Such Technological Innovations As Combat Drones, 3-d Printers And Synthetic Organisms To Consider How People Of The Near Future Can Be Protected,--novelist. Navigating The Future -- A Prediction -- The C Words -- The Pace Of Change -- Trade-offs -- Engineering Organisms -- Mastery Of The Human Genome -- Transcending Limits -- Cyborgs And Techno Sapiens -- Pathologizing Human Nature -- Drivers Of The Storm -- Terminating The Terminator -- Engineering For Responsibility -- Tools For Governance -- Guild Navigators. Wendell Wallach. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 283-316) And Index.
“Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong” (2010)
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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