The nature, importance, and difficulty of machine ethics

IEEE Intelligent Systems

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 18-21

  Moor, James H ^a,b  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS; ETHICAL AGENTS; ETHICAL THEORY; MACHINE ETHICS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DECISION MAKING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 33747228513     PISSN: 15411672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MIS.2006.80     Document Type: Review

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