EthicALife: A new field of inquiry (original) (raw)

2015

Abstract

The challenge of designing computer systems and robots with the ability to make moral judgments has stepped out of sci-ence fiction and moved into the laboratory. Engineers and scholars, anticipating practical necessities, are writing arti-cles, participating in conference workshops, and initiating a few experiments directed at substantiating rudimentary moral reasoning in hardware and software. The subject has been designated by several names, including machine ethics, ma-chine morality, artificial morality, ethical alife or computa-tional morality. We will describe the challenges facing the development of ethical agents and discuss the contributions that ALife can make to meeting these challenges.

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