Artificial moral agents do not exist but are easily imagined: driverless trains that choose to turn away from a track on which five engineers are working, or autonomous armed drone aircraft that can distinguish between legitimate and unsanctioned targets. In Moral Machines, ethicist Wendell Wallach and philosopher Colin Allen pose three questions: "Does the world need artificial moral agents? Do people want computers making moral decisions? And how should engineers and philosophers proceed to design such agents?"
展开▼
