Emergent values for automatons: Ethical problems of life in the generalized Internet

  • Authors:
  • Eric Steinhart

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Philosophy, William Paterson University, Wayne NJ 07470, USA. E-mail: esteinha@ix.netcom.com

  • Venue:
  • Ethics and Information Technology
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

The infrastructure is becoming a network of computerized machinesregulated by societies of self-directing software agents. Complexityencourages the emergence of novel values in software agent societies.Interdependent human and software political orders cohabitate andcoevolve in a symbiosis of freedoms.