Moral Machines
by Wendell Wallach, Colin Allen · Wendell Wallach, Colin Allen
Book on building artificial moral agents: whether machines can make ethical decisions and how that might be engineered. Compares top-down approaches that encode rules such as utilitarianism or Kantian duties with bottom-up learning approaches, and argues hybrid designs are likely needed.
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