Tag: "computers and AI"

Mathematics, Morality & Machines

William Byers, mathematician, and Michael Schleifer, moral theorist, use their judgement to calculate the improbability of a machine thinking like a human being.
[Issue 78: April/May 2010: Articles]

The Conscience Of The Machine

by Wendell Wallach
[Issue 72: March/April 2009: Editorial]

The Challenge of Moral Machines

Wendell Wallach tells us what the basic problems are.
[Issue 72: March/April 2009: Machine Morality]

Will Robots Need Their Own Ethics?

Steve Torrance asks if robots need minds to be moral producers or moral consumers.
[Issue 72: March/April 2009: Machine Morality]

Four Kinds of Ethical Robots

James H. Moor defines different ways in which machines could be moral.
[Issue 72: March/April 2009: Machine Morality]

Machines and Moral Reasoning

Thomas M. Powers on how a computer might process Kant’s moral imperative.
[Issue 72: March/April 2009: Machine Morality]

How Machines Can Advance Ethics

Susan Leigh Anderson and Michael Anderson relate how their attempts to build ethical machines have advanced their understanding of ethics.
[Issue 72: March/April 2009: Machine Morality]

Man in the Middle: Animals, Humans and Robots

by Joel Marks
[Issue 72: March/April 2009: Moral Moments]

Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong by Wendell Wallach and Colin Allen

Tony Beavers considers a timely understanding of machine ethics.
[Issue 71: January/February 2009: Books]

Only Human

Peter Worley’s heroine discovers that love goes deeper than the senses can penetrate.
[Issue 69: September/October 2008: Fiction]