Robot ethics: Mapping the issues for a mechanized world

Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 175, Issue 5-6, 2011, Pages 942-949

  Lin, Patrick ^a   Abney, Keith ^a,b   Bekey, George ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

Error; Ethics; Law; Philosophy; Policy; Psychology; Robot; Robotics; Safety; Society

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ERRORS; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; PUBLIC POLICY; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES; ETHICS; PHILOSOPHY; PSYCHOLOGY; ROBOT ETHICS; SOCIAL IMPACT; SOCIAL ISSUES; SOCIETY;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 79953218320     PISSN: 00043702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artint.2010.11.026     Document Type: Review

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