Robot ethics? Not yet. A reflection on Whitby's "Sometimes it's hard to be a robot"

Interacting with Computers

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 338-341

  Thimbleby, Harold ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Meta ethics; Robot ethics

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

ARTIFICIAL AGENTS; META-ETHICS; ROBOT ETHICS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 42749083007     PISSN: 09535438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intcom.2008.02.006     Document Type: Article

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