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robots and morality

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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ROBOTS AND MORALITY

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Do People Hold A Robot Morally Accountable For The Harm It Causes?
Peter Kahn et al.

"People engage socially with animals, but usually do not conceive of them as entities that can be held morally accountable. People engage socially with other humans, and usually do conceive of them this way. What about robots? We found that 65% of the participants attributed some level of moral accountability to Robovie for the harm that it caused the participant by unfairly depriving the participant of 20$ that the participant had won"

"Robot Minds and Human Ethics: The Need For A Comprehensive Model of Moral Decision Making"
By: Wendell Wallach

WALLACH'S CONCLUSIONS

1) Better Understanding of Human Moral Decision Making

2) Examine Human Moral Behavior With a High Degree of Specificity

3) Better Understanding of What it Means to be a moral Agent (Characteristics)

GOOGLE'S NEW A.I. ETHICS BOARD MIGHT SAVE HUMANITY

FROM EXTINCTION

WE NEED A MORAL OPERATING SYSTEM

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"Toward Modeling and Automating Ethical Decision Making"
By: Gregory Reed and Nicholas Jones

METRIC OF EVIL
1) Help commanders make ethical decision

2) Make Unethical decision in combat situations

3) Provide assessments of pairs of potential military courses of action

4)Reduce the amount of manpower required to provide ethical decisions

"MORAL THEORIES FOR AUTONOMOUS SOFTWARE"

BY: RICHARD LUCAS

Conclusions

1) Asimov's three laws would be ineffective in practical scenarios as to many exceptions would need to be programmed

2) Until we find an appropriate way of programming robots we should use them to advise and leave them out of decision making