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2010
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Anticipation and the artificial: aesthetics, ethics, and synthetic life
If complexity is a necessary but not sufficient premise for the existence and expression of the living, anticipation is the distinguishing characteristic of what is alive. Anticipa...
Mihai Nadin
AIS
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Ethical robots: the future can heed us
Bill Joy's deep pessimism is now famous. "Why The Future Doesn't Need Us," his defense of that pessimism, has been read by, it seems, everyone -- and many of t...
Selmer Bringsjord
SYNTHESE
2010
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13 years 8 months ago
What ought probably means, and why you can't detach it
: Some intuitive normative principles raise vexing „detaching problems‟ by their failure to license modus ponens. I examine three such principles (a self-reliance principle and...
Stephen Finlay
IWC
2008
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Robot ethics? Not yet: A reflection on Whitby's "Sometimes it's hard to be a robot"
Science fiction stories seductively portray robots as human. In present reality (early 21st century) robots are machines, even though they can do many things far better than human...
Harold W. Thimbleby