Machine Ethics
Papers from the 2005 AAAI Fall Symposium
Michael Anderson, Susan Leigh Anderson, and Chris Armen, Program Cochairs
Technical Report FS-05-06. Published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California
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Contents
Preface / v
G Michael Anderson, Susan Leigh Anderson, and Chris Arme
Papers
Towards Machine Ethics: Implementing Two Action-Based Ethical Theories / 1
Michael Anderson, Susan Leigh Anderson, and Chris Armen
Asimov’s “Three Laws of Robotics” and Machine Metaethics / 8
Susan Leigh Anderson
Toward Ethical Robots via Mechanized Deontic Logic / 17
Konstantine Arkoudas, Selmer Bringsjord, and Paul Bello
Ethical Robots: The Future Can Heed Us / 24
Selmer Bringsjord
Additional Thoughts Concerning the Legal Status of a Non-Biological Machine / 30
David J. Calverley
The Utilibot Project: An Autonomous Mobile Robot Based on Utilitarianism / 38
Christopher Cloos
There Is no “I” in “Robot”: Robotic Utilitarians and Utilitarian Robots / 46
Christopher Grau
Particularism and Generalism: How AI Can Help Us to Better Understand Moral Cognition / 52
Marcello Guarini
Technological Artifacts as Moral Carriers and Mediators / 62
Lorenzo Magnani
Lessons in Machine Ethics from the Perspective of Two Computational Models of Ethical Reasoning / 70
Bruce M. McLaren
The Nature and Importance of Machine Ethics / 78
James H. Moor
Deontological Machine Ethics / 79
Thomas M. Powers
What Statistics Could Do for Ethics? The Idea of Common Sense Processing Based Safety Valve / 85
Rafal Rzepka and Kenji Araki
A Robust View of Machine Ethics / 88
Steve Torrance
Machine Morality: Bottom-up and Top-down Approaches for Modeling Human Moral Faculties / 94
Wendell Wallach, Colin Allen, and Iva Smit
Poster Abstracts
Machine Ethics and Human Ethics: A Critical View / 103
Francesco Amigoni and Viola Schiaffonati
The Paradox of Social Robotics: A Discussion / 105
Brian R. Duffy and Gina Joue
Moral Intelligence for Human and Artificial Agents / 107
Laura Pana
The Ambiguous Ethical Status of Autonomous Robots / 109
John P. Sullins