Rethinking Machine Ethics in the Age of Ubiquitous Technology

Rethinking Machine Ethics in the Age of Ubiquitous Technology

Jeffrey White (Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, KAIST, South Korea) and Rick Searle (IEET, USA)
Indexed In: SCOPUS
Release Date: May, 2015|Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 331
ISBN13: 9781466685925|ISBN10: 1466685921|EISBN13: 9781466685932|DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8592-5

Description

As the utilization of intelligent machines spreads to numerous realms, the discourse of machine ethics has also developed and expanded. Concerns over machine intelligence and the role of automata in everyday life must be addressed before artificial intelligence and robotic technologies may be fully integrated into human society.

Rethinking Machine Ethics in the Age of Ubiquitous Technology blends forward-looking, constructive, and interdisciplinary visions of ethical ideals, aims, and applications of machine technology. This visionary reference work incorporates ethical conversations in the fields of technology, computer science, robotics, and the medical industry, creating a vibrant dialogue between philosophical ideals and the applied sciences. With its broad scope of relevant topics, this book serves as an excellent tool for policymakers, academicians, researchers, advanced-level students, technology developers, and government officials.

This timely publication features thoroughly researched articles on the topics of artificial moral agency, cyber-warfare, transhumanism, organic neural nets, human worker replacement, automaticity and global governance, security and surveillance, military drones, and more.

Topics Covered

The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

  • Artificial Moral Agency
  • Automaticity and Global Governance
  • Cyber-Warfare
  • Embedded Technologies
  • Facial Recognition Technologies
  • Mechanized Military Intelligence
  • Mechanized Workforce
  • Organic Neural Nets
  • Security and Surveillance
  • Transhumanism

Reviews and Testimonials

Computer scientists and related researchers discuss the growing dependency on intelligent machines, intelligent machine technologies as a window on human morality both as evolved and as evident in current Internet discourse, the ethics of human enhancement from moral perception to competition in the workplace, the ethics of distancing technologies in education and warfare, and integral visions of morality in a technological world over evolutionary time with revolutionary means and with open questions about the final purpose of it all.

– ProtoView Book Abstracts (formerly Book News, Inc.)

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Author(s)/Editor(s) Biography

Jeffrey White received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2006 with a dissertation titled: “Conscience: Toward the mechanism of morality”. He also earned his MA in Philosophy and MS in Chemistry from Cleveland State University in 2001. Since 2010, Dr. White has served as a Lecturer at KAIST. His past experience includes Research/Teaching assistant at the University of Missouri-Columbia, Teaching/Graduate assistant at Cleveland State University, and Lab technician/assistant at Bowling Green State University. Dr. White has numerous publications and has presented and participated in various conferences throughout his professional career.
Rick Searle is an educator and freelance writer who explores the intersection of science, technology, philosophy and politics. He is an affiliate scholar with the Institute for the Ethics of Emerging Technology and is a frequent writer for the IEET website. He also blogs at utopiaordystopia.com

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