The ethics of designing artificial agents

Ethics and Information Technology

Volumn 10, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 115-121

  Grodzinsky, Frances S ^a   Miller, Keith W ^b   Wolf, Marty J ^c  

^a SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT SPRINGFIELD   (United States)

^c BEMIDJI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial agent; Design of artificial agents; Intentionality; Learning; Machine complexity; Neural nets; Responsibility

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL AGENTS; COMPUTER SCIENTISTS; INTENTIONALITY; LEARNING; LEVELS OF ABSTRACTION; MORAL AGENTS; MORAL RESPONSIBILITY; RESPONSIBILITY;

DESIGN; NEURAL NETWORKS; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; SANDERS;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 56549125571     PISSN: 13881957     EISSN: 15728439     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10676-008-9163-9     Document Type: Article

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