Un-making artificial moral agents

Ethics and Information Technology

Volumn 10, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 123-133

  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 moral agents; Autonomy; Computer modeling; Computers and society; Independence; Levels of abstraction; Sociotechnical systems

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMY; COMPUTER MODELING; COMPUTERS AND SOCIETIES; INDEPENDENCE; LEVELS OF ABSTRACTION; MORAL AGENTS; SOCIOTECHNICAL SYSTEMS;

ABSTRACTING; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; SANDERS;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 56549123827     PISSN: 13881957     EISSN: 15728439     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10676-008-9174-6     Document Type: Article

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