Can robots make ethical decisions?

Assembly line robots feel alienated from their work, ponder socialism, still hate hippies.

This piece discusses “Modelling Morality with Prospective Logic,” where Luís Moniz Pereira and Ari Saptawijaya declare that morality is no longer the exclusive realm of human philosophers.

They accomplished this feat by resolving the hidden rules that people use in making moral judgments and then modeling them for the computer using prospective logic programs.

-Jake

 

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September 19, 2009 · Filed Under Jake, Science

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