THE CHALLANGE OF INTEGRATING ETHICS INTO MACHINES

Year 2021, , 122 - 128, 30.12.2021

Gönül Kaya Özbağ

https://doi.org/10.46238/jobda.1019798

Abstract

It is rather difficult to talk about machine ethics when even the ethical behavior process in human beings is not fully clarified and understood. Some defend ethical machines evidently cannot be produced because ethics is simply the voice of a human spirit and machines do not have spirits whereas some some others defend humans are a kind of machine. Whatever you believe, robots are going to have larger roles in our lives and thus researchers from different fields of expertise should discuss more often whether robots can be given moral and ethical reasoning abilities. Accordingly, to contribute to the debate, this article will address some views on machine moral and ethics and critically raise ethical challenges within them.

Keywords

machine ethics, ethical principles, top-down ethical theories, bottom-up ethical theories

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