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Philosophy and Theory of Artificial Intelligence

Volume 5 of the series Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics pp 389-396

Artificial Intelligence Safety Engineering: Why Machine Ethics Is a Wrong Approach

  • Roman V. YampolskiyAffiliated withDepartment of Computer Engineering and Computer Science, University of Louisville Email author 

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Abstract

Machine ethics and robot rights are quickly becoming hot topics in artificial intelligence/robotics communities. We will argue that the attempts to allow machines to make ethical decisions or to have rights are misguided. Instead we propose a new science of safety engineering for intelligent artificial agents. In particular we issue a challenge to the scientific community to develop intelligent systems capable of proving that they are in fact safe even under recursive self-improvement.

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AI Confinement Machine Ethics Robot Rights