Robots: Ethical by design

Ethics and Information Technology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 61-71

  Dodig Crnkovic, Gordana ^a   Çürüklü, Baran ^a  

^a MÄLARDALEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Artifactual responsibility; Artificial morality; Autonomous agents; Functional responsibility; Machine ethics; Machine morality; Roboethics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860417495     PISSN: 13881957     EISSN: 15728439     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10676-011-9278-2     Document Type: Article

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