The Nature, Importance, and Difficulty of Machine Ethics

Authors:
James H. Moor
Affiliations:
Dartmouth College
Venue:
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Year:
2006

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Abstract

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 amachine 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 thatare explicit ethical agents. This research is important, but accomplishing this goal will be extremelydifficult without a better understanding of ethics and of machine learning and cognition. This article is part of a special issue on Machine Ethics.