What do we owe to intelligent robots?

• Published in: AI & society Vol. 35; no. 1; pp. 209 - 223
• Main Author: Gordon, John-Stewart
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Springer London 01.03.2020; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Agents (artificial intelligence); Artificial Intelligence; Computer Science; Control; Decision making; Engineering Economics; Ethics; Logistics; Marketing; Mechatronics; Methodology of the Social Sciences; Morality; Open Forum; Organization; Performing Arts; Reasoning; Robotics; Robots; Moral agency; Moral status; Artificially intelligent robots; Machine rights; Moral rights; Full ethical agents

Great technological advances in such areas as computer science, artificial intelligence, and robotics have brought the advent of artificially intelligent robots within our reach within the next century. Against this background, the interdisciplinary field of machine ethics is concerned with the vita...