Machine Ethics and Artificial Moral Agents
How to design machines with ethically-significant behaviors
There has been a lot of talk over the past months about AI being our best or worst invention ever. The chance of robots taking over and the following catastrophic sci-fi scenario makes the ethical and purposeful design of machines and algorithms not simply important but necessary.
But the problems do not end here. Incorporating ethical principles into our technology development process should not just be a way to prevent human race extinction but also a way to understand how to use the power coming from that technology responsibly.
This article does not want to be a guide for ethics for AI or setting the guidelines for building ethical technologies. It is simply a stream of consciousness on questions and problems I have been thinking and asking myself, and hopefully, it will stimulate some discussion.
Now, let’s go down the rabbit-hole…
