Philosophy of Computer Science

Computer Ethics

Last Update: 10 April 2007

Note: NEW or UPDATED material is highlighted


Entire courses have been devoted to this topic. For more information, do a Google search by clicking on the title above. I also have a large file of articles and newspaper clippings; stop by my office if you want to browse through it. (If I can find it ;-)


Websites

  1. AAAI's AI Topics website on Ethical and Social Implications of AI

  2. The Research Center on Computing and Society


Readings

There are numerous books on computer ethics. For those at UB, type "computer ethics" as a Keyword into Bison.

Boldface entries are of particular interest or importance.

  1. Lem, Stanislaw (1971), "Non Serviam", in S. Lem, A Perfect Vacuum, trans. by Michael Kandel (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979).

  2. Moor, James H. (1979), "Are There Decisions Computers Should Never Make?" [PDF], Nature and System 1: 217-229.

  3. Moor, James H. (1985), "What Is Computer Ethics?, Metaphilosophy 16(4) (October): 266-275.

  4. LaChat, Michael R. (1986), "Artificial Intelligence and Ethics: An Exercise in the Moral Imagination" [PDF], AI Magazine 7(2): 70-79.

  5. NEW
    1. Clarke, Roger (1993), "Asimov's Laws of Robotics: Implications for Information Technology, Part 1", [IEEE] Computer (December): 53-61.
    2. Clarke, Roger (1994), "Asimov's Laws of Robotics: Implications for Information Technology, Part 2", [IEEE] Computer (January): 57-66.

  6. Turkle, Sherry (2004), "How Computers Change the Way We Think", Chronicle of Higher Education (January 30): B26-B28.

  7. Petersen, Stephen (2007), "The Ethics of Robot Servitude", Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence 19(1) (March): 43-54.



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