Machina Ethica Buchkatalog

Can computers be ethical? This book explores thecriteria for computers being a Kant moral persons. Alan Turing the mathematician, once remarked that atsome future time we will talk of computers thinking withoutcontroversy. Will the same happen to morality: will we speak of computersacting ethical without anyone raising a word of concern? Ought webe concerned? I think so. So much of our technology is thoughtabout after its affects have become embedded, after it is much toolate to dodge the bullets of consequences. One of the reasons thatsome technology sneaks up on us is that we have notthought about its possibility before: that we have not considered itsshape or character. I think we ought to do this for theethics of computers. Here I examine in detail the question of whethercomputers can be ethical and in this examination look at some of theboundaries that might be in place for them as well as thecharacteristics they might have to have to be considered ethical.