Toward machines that behave ethically better than humans do

Building Bridges Across Cognitive Sciences Around the World - Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 2198-2203

  Pontier, Matthijs A ^a   Hoorn, Johan F ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cognitive modeling; Machine ethics; Medical ethics

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

AFFECTIVE BEHAVIORS; COGNITIVE MODEL; CONNECTIONISM; DECISIONS MAKINGS; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; ETHICAL THEORIES; MACHINE BEHAVIOR; MACHINE ETHIC; MEDICAL ETHIC; REASONERS;

DECISION MAKING;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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