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Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong
Wendell Wallach
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Description for Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong
Paperback. Moral Machines explores the development of computers and robots capable of making moral decisions. Why do we need them? Do we want computers and robots making moral decisions? And if we do, how can we make ethics computable? The challenge of building moral machines forces one to think deeply about how humans make moral decisions. Num Pages: 288 pages, 2 black and white line illustrations, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: TJFM1; UBJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
"An invaluable guide to avoiding the stuff of science-fiction nightmares."--John Gilby, Times Higher Education "Moral Machines is a fine introduction to the emerging field of robot ethics. There is much here that will interest ethicists, philosophers, cognitive scientists, and roboticists."-Peter Danielson, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews "Written with an abundance of examples and lessons learned, scenarios of incidents that may happen, and elaborate discussions on existing artificial agents on the cutting edge of research/practice, Moral Machines goes beyond what is known as computer ethics into what will soon be called the discipline of machine morality. Highly recommended."-G. Trajkovski, CHOICE ... Read more
"An invaluable guide to avoiding the stuff of science-fiction nightmares."--John Gilby, Times Higher Education "Moral Machines is a fine introduction to the emerging field of robot ethics. There is much here that will interest ethicists, philosophers, cognitive scientists, and roboticists."-Peter Danielson, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews "Written with an abundance of examples and lessons learned, scenarios of incidents that may happen, and elaborate discussions on existing artificial agents on the cutting edge of research/practice, Moral Machines goes beyond what is known as computer ethics into what will soon be called the discipline of machine morality. Highly recommended."-G. Trajkovski, CHOICE ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199737970
SKU
V9780199737970
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About Wendell Wallach
Wendell Wallach Yale University Center for Bioethics. Colin Allen: Philosophy and Cognitive Science, Indiana University
Reviews for Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong
An invaluable guide to avoiding the stuff of science-fiction nightmares.
John Gilby, Times Higher Education
John Gilby, Times Higher Education