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points:
“The US
Office of Naval Research this week offered a $7.5m grant to
university researchers to develop robots with autonomous moral
reasoning ability.”
“...
the Navy says that it envisions such systems having extensive use in
first-response, search-and-rescue missions, or medical applications.”
“The
idea behind the ONR-funded project will isolate essential elements of
human moral competence through theoretical and empirical research,
and will develop formal frameworks for modeling human-level moral
logic. Next, it will implement corresponding mechanisms for moral
competence in a computational architecture. Once the architecture is
established, researchers can begin to evaluate how well machines
perform in human-robot interaction experiments where robots face
various dilemmas, make decisions and explain their decisions in ways
that are acceptable to humans ...”
“...
even though today's unmanned systems are 'dumb' in comparison to a
human counterpart, progress is being made to incorporate more
automation at a faster pace.”
“'We're
talking about robots designed to be autonomous; hence the main
purpose of building them in the first place is that you don't have to
tell them what to do,' ...”
“They
will there be demonstrating two autonomous robots: one
that succumbs to the temptation to get revenge, and
another - controlled by the moral logic they are engineering - that
resists its vengeful 'heart' and does no violence.”
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