Ethics and Intelligent Systems
April 25, 2011
This isn’t by any means a new topic; Asimov codified it in his famous Three Laws back in 1942; and Wired ran an article in 2005 that considered some of the broader ethical implications of introducing ever-more-humanoid machines into society.
There now seems to be a burgeoning discussion on this topic, spread widely.
Illah Nourbakhsh’s lecture (below) has spawned a CMU class; Patrick Lin (along with George Bekey and others) at Cal Poly SLO’s Ethics + Emerging Technology Group have authored several good papers, with some intro and discussion at the Stanford Law Center for Internet and Society. There are several interesting blogs covering this area, such as moral machines.