A dialogue on responsibility, moral agency, and IT systems

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 272-276

  Johnson, Deborah G ^a   Miller, Keith W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT SPRINGFIELD   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial agents; Computer ethics; IT systems; Moral agents

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

ARTIFICIAL AGENTS; COMPUTER ETHICS; MORAL AGENTS;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 33751041217     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1141277.1141341     Document Type: Conference Paper

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