Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong

by Wendell Wallach and Colin Allen

Book Overview

Computers are already approving financial transactions, controlling electrical supplies, and driving trains. Soon, service robots will be taking care of the elderly in their homes, and military robots will have their own targeting and firing protocols. Colin Allen and Wendell Wallach argue that as robots take on more and more responsibility, they must be programmed with moral decision-making abilities, for our own safety. Taking a fast paced tour...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199737975
• ISBN13: 9780199737970
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"