Concept
Machine ethics
Overview
Machine ethics (or machine morality, computational morality, or computational ethics) is a part of the ethics of artificial intelligence concerned with adding or ensuring moral behaviors of man-made machines that use artificial intelligence (AI), otherwise known as AI agents. Machine ethics differs from other ethical fields related to engineering and technology. It should not be confused with computer ethics, which focuses on human use of computers. It should also be distinguished from the philosophy of technology, which concerns itself with technology's grander social effects.
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Possible passages
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To conceive rightly of moral actions, we must take notice of them under this two-fold consideration. First, as they are in themselves, each made up of such a collection of simple ideas.
John Locke, An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1
States what Machine ethics is; the author is tied to Machine ethics in the knowledge graph.
Since the Renaissance, moral philosophy has repeatedly reverted to the Greek ideal of natural excellence realized in social life, under the fostering care of intelligence in action. The return, however, has taken place under the influence of democratic polity, commercial expansion, and scientific reorganization. It has been a liberation more than a reversion.
John Dewey, The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy, and other essays in contemporary thought
Close in meaning to Machine ethics; the term itself is not named.
Moreover, as this rudimentary mechanical knowledge, though still remaining empirical, becomes during early stages of civilization at once more definite and more extensive; so during early stages of civilization these ethical ideas, still retaining their empirical character, increase in precision and multiplicity. But just as we have seen that mechanical knowledge of the empirical sort can evolve into mechanical…
Herbert Spencer, The Data of Ethics
Close in meaning to Machine ethics; the term itself is not named.
Related ideas
- The Independent
- Artificial intelligence
- Nelson Goodman
- Human rights
- John Locke
- Justice
- Sentience
- World Economic Forum
- Intentionality
- Metaphysics
- Autonomy
- Bioethics
- BBC
- Categorical imperative
- Philip K. Dick
- Property
- Rule of law
- Science fiction
- Communications of the ACM
- Moral responsibility
- Saudi Arabia
- Philosophy of science
- Blade Runner
- Altruism (ethics)
Opposing perspectives
- Artificial intelligence
- Technology
- The Matrix
- Design
- Philosophy of technology
- Ethics of artificial intelligence
- Outline of ethics
Place in the tradition
Part of Outline of ethics.