Alan Winfield opened the second day of the 4th EUCogIII Members Conference on the "Social and Ethical Aspects of Cognitive Systems". In his talk Alan reflects on a personal journey from the notion of "ethics for roboticists" to the idea of "ethics for robots". He then gives some ideas on the ethics of building moral machines. You can find the slides and description of of his presentation in his blog.
Watch his talk, check the references and the related tweets that where posted during the conference, and keep the discussion at #robotsandyou.
Alan Winfield, (UWE, Bristol)
Ethical robotics: Some technical and ethical challenges
Related Tweets:
Clearly, @alan_winfield's first priority for robots is human #safety.Ethical behaviour should emerge from safety #robotsandyou @EUCogNetwork
— Georgios Pierris (@gpierris) October 24, 2013
@j2bryson @EUCogNetwork I don't say they have, only there is a danger they might be perceived as having. #robotsandyou
— Alan Winfield (@alan_winfield) October 24, 2013
@alan_winfield @GrandpaRobot @j2bryson @EUCogNetwork It's hubris to think AI dev can consider/mitigate all the factors. Collaboration is key
— MarinaS (@marstrina) October 24, 2013
Head spinning with ideas and great conversations from outstanding @EUCogNetwork Safe and Ethical Aspects of Cog. Systems meet. #robotsandyou
— Alan Winfield (@alan_winfield) October 25, 2013
Talk references:
- A Crisis of Expectations
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Draft ethical principles proposed by UK EPSRC/AHRC working group on robot ethics
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Bongard, J., Zykov, V., Lipson, H. (2006) Resilient machines through continuous self-modeling
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Marques, H. and Holland, O. (2009). Architectures for functional imagination
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Libet, B (1985), Unconscious cerebral Initiative and the role of conscious will in voluntary action
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Moor JH (2006), The Nature, Importance and Difficulty of Machine Ethics
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Wallach W and Allen C (2009), Moral Machines: Teaching robots right from wrong