Computational Ethics Seminar


Introduction

The Turing Test
Alan M. Turing
Computing Machinery and intelligence
Mind 49: 433-460 (1950)
https://www.csee.umbc.edu/courses/471/papers/turing.pdf

Ethics of General AI

Bill Hibbard
Ethical Artificial Intelligence
arXiv (November 2015)
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1411.1373.pdf

Autonomous Agents

Olivier Boissier, Gré©gory Bonnet, Nicolas Cointe, Bruno Mermet, Gaë«le Simon, Catherine Tessier, and Thibault de Swarte
Ethics and autonomous agents: Models for ethical autonomous agents
ANR ETHICAA Report ANR-13-CORD-0006 (April 2017)
https://ethicaa.greyc.fr/media/files/ethicaa.delivrable.4.pdf

Robot Morality

Wendell Wallach and Colin Allen
Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong
Oxford (2009)
http://tuvalu.santafe.edu/~bowles/MoralGrammar.pdf

Anticipatory Ethics

Philip A. E. Brey
Anticipatory Ethics for Emerging Technologies

Nanoethics 6(1): 1–13 (2012)
https://www.law.upenn.edu/live/files/4321-brey-panticipatory-ethics-for-emerging

Formal Ethics

John Mikhail
Moral Grammar and Intuitive Jurisprudence: A Formal Model of Unconscious Moral and Legal Knowledge
Psychology of Learning and Motivation 50:27-100 (2008)
http://tuvalu.santafe.edu/~bowles/MoralGrammar.pdf

Singularity

Luke Muehlhauser and Louie Helm
The Singularity and Machine Ethics
in:
Singularity Hypotheses. A scientific and philosophical assessment (2013)
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Louie_Helm/publication/ 233935716_The_Singularity_and_Machine_Ethics/links/0fcfd50d21130d10dc000000/The- Singularity-and-Machine-Ethics.pdf

Animal-Machine Interaction

Clara Mancini
Towards an Animal-Centred Ethics for Animal–Computer Interaction
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 98:221–233 (2017)
http://oro.open.ac.uk/46164/1/Mancini_1-s2.0-S1071581916300180-main.pdf

Internet Shaming

Kate Klonick
Re-Shaming the Debate: Social Norms, Shame, and Regulation in an Internet Age
Maryland Law Review 75(4): 4 (2016)
http://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3720&context=mlr

Learning Bias

Tolga Bolukbasi, Kai-Wei Chang, James Zou, Venkatesh Saligrama, and Adam Kalai
Man is to Computer Programmer as Woman is to Homemaker? Debiasing Word Embeddings
30th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2016)
https://papers.nips.cc/paper/6228-man-is-to-computer-programmer-as-woman-is-to- homemaker-debiasing-word-embeddings.pdf

Social Data

Alexandra Olteanu, Carlos Castillo, Fernando Diaz, and Emre Kı±ııman
Social Data: Biases, Methodological Pitfalls, and Ethical Boundaries
http://kiciman.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/SSRN-id2886526.pdf

Impact on Economy

Philippe Aghion, Benjamin F. Jones, and Charles I. Jones
Artificial Intelligence and Economic Growth
NBER Working Paper No. 23928 (October 2017)
http://www.nber.org/papers/w23928.pdf

Digital Intellectual Rights

Pamela Samuelson and Randall Davis
The Digital Dilemma: A Perspective on Intellectual Property in the Information Age
28th Annual Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (2000)
http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~pam/papers/digdilsyn.pdf

Other Topics

  1. Safety of vehicles, drones, etc.
  2. Robot laws
  3. Computer crime and its implications
  4. Hybrids; human-animal; machine humanity
  5. Privacy in the cyber age; right to anonymity/accuracy
  6. Security; hacking; reporting bugs; whose takes responsibility
  7. Medical issues; bioethics
  8. Human experimentation
  9. Computer judges; mechanized law
  10. Big brother; advertisements
  11. The global economy
  12. Education, commercial involvement, distant learning
  13. Internet addiction, gambling, pornography
  14. Societal vs. personal good
  15. Profiling; preventive incarceration
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