The responsibility gap: Ascribing responsibility for the actions of learning automata

Ethics and Information Technology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 175-183

  Matthias, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Artificial intelligence; Autonomous robots; Learning machines; Liability; Moral responsibility

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MANUFACTURE; PRODUCT LIABILITY; ROBOTS;

AGENT ARCHITECTURES; LEARNING AUTOMATA; LEARNING MACHINES; MORAL RESPONSIBILITY;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 33751033303     PISSN: 13881957     EISSN: 15728439     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10676-004-3422-1     Document Type: Article

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