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Attributing Agency to Automated Systems: Reflections on Human–Robot Collaborations and Responsibility-Loci
Many ethicists writing about automated systems (e.g. self-driving cars and autonomous weapons systems) attribute agency to these systems. Not only...
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How to Treat Machines that Might Have Minds
This paper offers practical advice about how to interact with machines that we have reason to believe could have minds. I argue that we should...
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Technological Unemployment, Meaning in Life, Purpose of Business, and the Future of Stakeholders
We offer a precautionary account of why business managers should proactively rethink about what kinds of automation firms ought to implement, by...
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The Ugly Truth About Ourselves and Our Robot Creations: The Problem of Bias and Social Inequity
Recently, there has been an upsurge of attention focused on bias and its impact on specialized artificial intelligence (AI) applications. Allegations...
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Smart City Experimentation in Urban Mobility—Exploring the Politics of Futuring in Hamburg
This chapter explores how a Smart City agenda has influenced attitudes towards the future in contemporary mobility planning in Hamburg. By comparing...
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Ethical and Political Delusion in the Model of Cloud Computing
Cloud Computing (CC) is not just a revolutionary development in information technologies (IT), but also a powerful metaphor and new sociotechnical...
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Anticipation in Robotics
In this chapter, we introduce anticipatory robotic systems. We show how intelligent robots can anticipate the future, by outlining two broad...
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Nietzsche, Postphenomenology, and Nihilism-Technology Relations
In part one of this paper I describe a tendency in technological production that I call the “leisure-as-liberation” model of technological design,...
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The Notion of Existential Risk and Its Role for the Anticipation of Technological Development’s Long-Term Impact
Existential risk has been defined by Nick Bostrom (J Evol Technol 9(1):1–31, 2002) as “one where an adverse outcome would either annihilate...
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Abduction: Enhancing Knowledge with an Ignorance-Based Reasoning
In this chapter, by highlighting the role of abduction in the scientific methodology, I will proceed to describe the function of ignorance in its...
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Pros and Cons of Autonomous Weapons Systems (with Oren Etzioni)
As technology progresses and autonomous weapons increasingly become a reality rather than mere science fiction, an ethical debate has developed...
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Robotic Care of Children, the Elderly, and the Sick (with Oren Etzioni)
As Artificial Intelligence technology seems poised for a major take-off and changing societal dynamics are creating a high demand for caregivers for...
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Promises and Limitations of Conscious Machines
A conscious machine is a complex system with a large number of sensor data, with the capability of learning and emergent behaviour. It should have...
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Job Collapse on the Way to New Athens
The case that America will not be able to replace jobs lost to technological advances is gaining adherents. Indeed, it is becoming one of the central...
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The Invention of Consciousness
In English we use the word “invention” in two ways. First, to mean a new device or process developed by experimentation, and designed to fulfill a...
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Anticipation in Robotics
In this chapter, we introduce anticipatory robotic systems. We show how intelligent robots can anticipate the future, by outlining two broad...
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Concept of Dual Use
There are a number of different preliminary definitions of dual use familiar in the literature. Research or technology is dual use if it can be used...