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Erschienen in: AI & SOCIETY 4/2008

01.04.2008 | Original Article

Machine morality: bottom-up and top-down approaches for modelling human moral faculties

verfasst von: Wendell Wallach, Colin Allen, Iva Smit

Erschienen in: AI & SOCIETY | Ausgabe 4/2008

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Abstract

The implementation of moral decision making abilities in artificial intelligence (AI) is a natural and necessary extension to the social mechanisms of autonomous software agents and robots. Engineers exploring design strategies for systems sensitive to moral considerations in their choices and actions will need to determine what role ethical theory should play in defining control architectures for such systems. The architectures for morally intelligent agents fall within two broad approaches: the top-down imposition of ethical theories, and the bottom-up building of systems that aim at goals or standards which may or may not be specified in explicitly theoretical terms. In this paper we wish to provide some direction for continued research by outlining the value and limitations inherent in each of these approaches.

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Metadaten
Titel
Machine morality: bottom-up and top-down approaches for modelling human moral faculties
verfasst von
Wendell Wallach
Colin Allen
Iva Smit
Publikationsdatum
01.04.2008
Verlag
Springer-Verlag
Erschienen in
AI & SOCIETY / Ausgabe 4/2008
Print ISSN: 0951-5666
Elektronische ISSN: 1435-5655
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-007-0099-0

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