Machine ethics Artificial intelligence
the field of machine ethics concerned giving machines ethical principles, or procedure discovering way resolve ethical dilemmas might encounter, enabling them function in ethically responsible manner through own ethical decision making. field delineated in aaai fall 2005 symposium on machine ethics: past research concerning relationship between technology , ethics has largely focused on responsible , irresponsible use of technology human beings, few people being interested in how human beings ought treat machines. in cases, human beings have engaged in ethical reasoning. time has come adding ethical dimension @ least machines. recognition of ethical ramifications of behavior involving machines, recent , potential developments in machine autonomy, necessitate this. in contrast computer hacking, software property issues, privacy issues , other topics ascribed computer ethics, machine ethics concerned behavior of machines towards human users , other machines. research in machine ethics k...