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Fear and Fascination Fear and Fascination
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Delegating Responsibility for Decisions to a Computer Delegating Responsibility for Decisions to a Computer
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Pulling the Wool Pulling the Wool
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Soldiers, Sex Toys, and Slaves Soldiers, Sex Toys, and Slaves
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Can Technology Risks be Properly Assessed? Can Technology Risks be Properly Assessed?
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The Future The Future
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3 Chapter 3 DOES HUMANITY WANT COMPUTERS MAKING MORAL DECISIONS?
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Published:January 2009
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Abstract
The chapter begins with an overview of philosophy of technology to provide a context for the specific concerns raised by the prospect of artificial moral agents. Some concerns, such as whether artificial moral agents will lead humans to abrogate responsibility to machines, seem particularly pressing. Other concerns, such as the prospect of humans becoming literally enslaved to machines, seem highly speculative. The unsolved problem of technology risk assessment is how heavily to weigh catastrophic possibilities against the advantages provided by new technologies. When should the precautionary principle be invoked? Historically, philosophers of technology have served as external critics, but increasingly philosophers are engaged in engineering activism, bringing sensitivity to human values into the design of systems. Human anthropomorphism of robotic dolls, robopets, household robots, companion robots, sex toys, and even military robots raises questions of whether these artifacts dehumanize people and substitute impoverished relationships for real human interactions.
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