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Moral behaviours of man-made machines
Machine 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. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Machine ethicsA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: A Research Ethics Framework for the Clinical Translation of Healthcare Machine LearningInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: International tradeThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: The Nature, Importance, and Difficulty of Machine EthicsCited 535 times
- Go sideways: Robot ethicsA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Ethics of artificial intelligenceA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
The Nature, Importance, and Difficulty of Machine Ethics
Why Machine Ethics?
Integrating Ethics within Machine Learning Courses
Machine learning in suicide science: Applications and ethics
Implementations in Machine Ethics
A Challenge for Machine Ethics
Limitations and risks of machine ethics
Machine ethics: The robot’s dilemma
🆕 Influential since 2022
A Research Ethics Framework for the Clinical Translation of Healthcare Machine Learning
AI and machine learning ethics, law, diversity, and global impact
Ethics-by-design: efficient, fair and inclusive resource allocation using machine learning
Machine Ethics: Do Androids Dream of Being Good People?
What makes clinical machine learning fair? A practical ethics framework
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕International tradeUnited States. General Accounting Office · 1986
The psychology of human-computer interactionStuart K. Card · 1983
The Alignment ProblemBrian Christian · 2020
Genius MakersCade Metz · 2021- 📕Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of InformationLuciano Floridi · 2016
- 📕Artificial Intelligence and the Environmental CrisisKeith Ronald Skene · 2019
Multi-UAV Planning and Task AllocationYasmina Bestaoui Sebbane · 2020- 📕Machine Ethics and Robot EthicsWendell Wallach, Peter Mario Asaro · 2016
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