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The Nature, Importance, and Difficulty of Machine Ethics
July/August 2006 (vol. 21 no. 4)
pp. 18-21
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James H. Moor, "The Nature, Importance, and Difficulty of Machine Ethics," IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 18-21, July/August, 2006.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MIS.2006.80,
author = {James H. Moor},
title = {The Nature, Importance, and Difficulty of Machine Ethics},
journal ={IEEE Intelligent Systems},
volume = {21},
number = {4},
issn = {1541-1672},
year = {2006},
pages = {18-21},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MIS.2006.80},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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James H. Moor, Dartmouth College
Machine ethics has a broad range of possible implementations in computer technology--from maintaining detailed records in hospital databases to overseeing emergency team movements after a disaster. From a machine ethics perspective, you can look at machines as ethical-impact agents, implicit ethical agents, explicit ethical agents, or full ethical agents. A current research challenge is to develop machines that are explicit ethical agents. This research is important, but accomplishing this goal will be extremely difficult without a better understanding of ethics and of machine learning and cognition. This article is part of a special issue on Machine Ethics.
Index Terms:
machine ethics, computer ethics, ethical agents
Citation:
James H. Moor, "The Nature, Importance, and Difficulty of Machine Ethics," IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 18-21, July-Aug. 2006, doi:10.1109/MIS.2006.80
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