Reading

Each link below goes to reading questions specific to assigned articles.  You can also download all reading assignments and publicly accessible articles at one time using the Archive link.

Arkin, selected readings from Governing Lethal Behavior in Autonomous Robots ;  Arkin: pp 29-36; 37-48; 62-67; 138-143

Borenstein, Robot caregivers

Bringsjord, Ethical Robots: the future should heed us

Calo, Robots and Privacy

Chang, news article Scientists report they have made robot that makes its own robots

Cho, news article Making machines that make other machines

Decker, Caregiving robots

Gieryn, selected readings from Cultural Boundaries of Science ; Gieryn1: pp vii – xii; pp 15-18 ; Gieryn2: pp 183-232

Hinman, two book chapters on Ethics ;  Hinman1: The Ethics of Consequences: Utilitarianism (Consequentialism) ; Hinman2: The Ethics of Character: Aristotle and Our Contemporaries

Joy, Why the Future doesn’t need us

Latour, selected readings from Science in Action ; Latour1: pp 40-44; pp 104-108 ; Latour2: pp 30-33

Lichocki et al., A Survey of the Robotics Ethical Landscape

McDermott, Artificial Intelligence meets Natural Stupidity

Moravec & Kurzweil, Scientific American articles Rise of the Robots and The coming merging of mind and machine

Nourbakhsh, The Rhetoric of Robotics

Pearce, The Biointelligence Explosion

Petersen, The Ethics of Robot Servitude

Sawyer, Robot ethics

Singer, selected readings from Wired for War ; Singer1: pp 94-108 ; Singer2: pp 19-41; 123-134; 205-236; 315-325; 382-412

Sipper, Scientific American article Go Forth and Replicate

Sparrow, Predators or Plowshares? Arms Control of Robotic Weapons

Sullins, When is a robot a moral agent?

Turkle, Authenticity in the age of digital companions

Wallach, Artificial Morality

Wallach, Moral decision-making