Programming Machine Ethics

By: Luís Moniz Pereira and Ari Saptawijaya

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Synopsis: This book addresses the fundamentals of machineethics. It discusses abilities required for ethical machine reasoning and theprogramming features that enable them. It connects ethics, psychologicalethical processes, and machine implemented procedures. From a technical pointof view, the book uses logic programming and evolutionary game theory to modeland link the individual and collective moral realms. It also reports on theresults of experiments performed using several model implementations. Opening specific and promising inroads into the terra incognita of machine ethics, theauthors define here new tools and describe a variety of program-tested moralapplications and implemented systems. In addition, they provide alternativereadings paths, allowing readers to best focus on their specific interests andto explore the concepts at different levels of detail. Mainly written for researchers in cognitivescience, artificial intelligence, robotics, philosophy of technology andengineering of ethics, the book willalso be of general interest to otheracademics, undergraduates in search of research topics, science journalists aswell as science and society forums, legislators and military organizationsconcerned with machine ethics.